I'm sure lovely girls such as yourselves need not worry about this"—Madame LaRoche begins, and I have a hunch we're about to be cautioned against something we enjoy

Are you taking us to hell?" I ask, and Denise answers with an ominous, "More or less.

While a kind man was working up the nerve to ask me on a date, I was working up the nerve to kill him with my bare hands

Science have proof that women talk more than men, it's a fact.

Courage isn't something you can conjure, it's either in you or it's not.

Almost 24 million children - one in three - are likely growing up without their father involved in their lives.

By comparing the human and chimp genomes, we can see the process of evolution clearly in the changes (in DNA) since we diverged from our common ancestor.

Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.

Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?

Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they're drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.

Making money, it seems, is all about the velocity of moving it around, so that it can exist in Hong Kong one moment and Wall Street a split second later.

In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew.

The border between the dead and the living, if you're Mexican, doesn't exist. The dead are part of your life.