He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed.

You going to be a scientist when you grow up?” That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.

The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters’ food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world. The immaturity of children is less attractive to them.

For a human being, nothing comes naturally, ' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.

A few minutes after he arrived, Lee was talking to a group of astronomers eager to learn what news he could bring them, for there are few natural philosophers as frustrated as astronomers in a fog.

She shook her head and whispered, "No. No! That can't be true. Impossible!""You think things have to be possible? Things have to be true!

There is nothing so special or boring nor there are any weak or strong things in this world. It is we and our surficial perception that creates these types of environment

Running a marathon with a backpack is tough and may hinder you from winning the race. Don’t let the baggage from your past - heavy with fear, guilt, and anger - slow you down.

I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.

A dutiful wife enables a good man to add her hands to his own for self-applause.

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

That was a good fight back in the gym,” he said. “But I think you could benefit from a few more boxing lessons.

Anything was better than to be loved for one's things.

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.

Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time, baseball magnates believed.

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.