In order to remain undead, I must steal the life force of someone whose fate matters less to me than my own.' I've always supposed that Wall Street traders utter essentially the same sentence.

The difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and dying.

Real people are made out of a whole lot of things—flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are made out of words.

The real reason for quest is always self-knowledge.

Every language has a grammar, a set of rules that govern usage and meaning, and literary language is no different. It’s all more or less arbitrary of course, just like language itself.

Reading is an activity of the imagination, and the imagination in question is not the writer's alone.

If a story is no good, being based on Hamlet won't save it.

Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike.

Please note, I am not suggesting that illicit drugs are required to break down social barriers.

Now, Joyce being Joyce, he has about five different purposes, one not being enough for genius.

Education shows the path to the door of opportunity. It gives confidence and hope to open it.

From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August.

I love Pittsburgh. Most of my family still lives there and I try to get back a couple of times a year.

...in the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything.

There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process.

I will be praying with my best wishes that the Orthodox move ahead because they are brothers and their bishops are bishops like us.

Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.

Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize its the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?

The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.

we, in that instant, lost, breathless to be witnesses, as if we stood ourselves refreshed among the shining fauna of that fire.