We can live indifferently to what people say
Among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all.
Yes, damn it, I love you! But the bedroom is not the boardroom, Robert. In the boardroom only one person can be in charge.
sometimes the people who were closest to you were also those who were furthest away.
What you told me did not change my way of thinking and I repeat that I would love to be your lifelong partner, but I want you to think very carefully about whether that man is me or not. If your...
Elizabeth lay face-down on the massage table, and allowed Marco to relieve the stress of the business day with firm and knowing fingers. Success, she decided, was often a matter of knowing when to...
Even the most powerful woman needs a place to unwind.
Before Volcker's speech, bonds had been conservative investments, into which investors put their savings when they didn't fancy a gamble in the stock market. After Volcker's speech, bonds became...
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. -George Orwell
Elizabeth studied the blurry tabloid photo, which showed her cousin Mary Stuart leaving a Paris disco at dawn, drunkenly clinging to the arm of a French tennis pro. The message was very clear. Put...
She likes us, said Umbo. I know, I could feel it too, said Rigg. She's really glad to have us here. I think she loves us like her own children. Whom she murdered and cut up into the stew. They were...
Whoop-de-do, said Ram.What?I'm celebrating.Was that irony or loss of mental function? asked the expendable.Was that a rhetorical questions, a bit of humor, or a sign that you are losing confidence in...
That, she said, is a little closer to how I imagine it works. Whether or not you pray has absolutely nothing to do with the person to your left. It's like saying you shouldn't get the moon in your...
Mark Nepo, one of my favorite spiritual writers.
No, I'm afraid your overconfidence, as with most young men who dream of becoming successful, can quite quickly become the Achilles' heel of your continued mediocrity
Memories streamed over her, and she sat up, images converging in her mind's eye, the sneaker wave of grief catching her in its riptide pull once again, leaving her washed ashore, bereft, with two deep...
There is still hope.
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
There I realized that she is a pleasure and joy and that she is my spiritual and my life, and that the world without a sorter is not equal to an atom of ashes.
Simple Shepherd Mortuary
Writers are married to their keyboards, as to their passports.
Be gentle...Many of the people who will come to see you are injured in spirit. They need to talk about things that have hurt them, or about things that they have done. Do not sit in judgement on them,...
There is plenty of work for love to do.
- Rabbit, I don’t even know your name. Do you have a name? “Just call me Rabbit,” the rabbit answered.
The important thing was that we were alive...
In my experience, influence is power.
She never puts on any weight, you'll notice that's often true of selfish women.
Western things stop being so by repetition
All our lives my brother and I were caught by the fictions my parents told us-fictions about themselves as well as others. Each wanted us to judge the other in his or her favor. Sometimes I felt...
No matter what doctors say, anger in human beings is often one of the enemy's traps.
First impressions die slowly, bad impressions take even longer
The old Soviet culture also left its former citizens oddly prepared for Wall Street in the early twenty-first century. The Soviet-controlled economy was horrible and complicated but riddled with...
I believe I'm very happy.
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
