Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

They were all gone now, broken or taken by people who had no idea what such items represented. Let them go. She held the past in her heart, with no need of physical items to tie it down.

I don't want to have these burdens. But I can't bear to turn them over to anyone else, either. Because, despite all the work, I like being in control of my own life.

There was, she suddenly saw, many ways to be raped.

SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it.

Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.

If you don't see anything wrong with your game, you need to wake up.

With humor you have so many options with topics and length, I mean I can write humor essays in books now and they can be as long as I want them to be.

The greatest thing a man can do for himself is to marry someone who is infinitely better than he is. And that's exactly what I did.

Thoughts are like airplanes flying in the air. If you ignore them, there is no problem. If you pay attention to them, you create an airport inside your head and permit them to land!

What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little.

The next frontier is our own selves.

Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.

Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.