My skin's too white." she said. Says who, Snow White?" he said, touching her cheek lightly with one hand.

My parents reverted to their Catholic faith through the charismatic renewal, so I was raised charismatic.

The boys at school are so degenerate that it makes one feel pessimistic about the future of the male gender in general.

Some scars never heal. And he sounds like he has a lot of them.' 'But Christ had scars too, even on His risen Body. Wounds in this life become glory in the next.

How do you say 'bring me sausage and eggs or I'll slit your throat' in Italian?" "Look it up in the phrase book.

It was Night. In most places, Night is a time for sleep, for calm, and for mystery. But not in New York City, where many things conspired every evening to murder the night.

Bear heard Rose in the background saying, 'Why thank you, Mr. Fish.' 'Good redhead. Helpful redhead,' Fish returned.

For years, we in publishing have been hearing from Catholic readers that they really yearn for Catholic fiction.

Blanche, prosaic in a pale yellow sweater and blue jeans, was wondering again if anything mattered—-life, faith--specifically, finishing homework assignments.

There was a silence. Then Paul looked at Alex. 'She knows Chesterton.' 'She lives,' said Alex.

Oh, but a real princess would know that hard work ennobles the soul,' Rose objected. 'That would be one of the signs.

Our assumptions of playing "gods" could lead to our own ignorance.

According to Lamarck, there was a force—the ‘power of life’—that pushed organisms to become increasingly complex.

I want to show people what the possibilities are if you take care of yourself and do the right thing.

Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper

I came out to California from Texas, to the Haight, and the Fillmore and all that stuff, and totally got the bug.

I think that by the middle of this century people will still be eating meat (though less), and their meat will mostly be produced in factories through synthetic processes, cell cultures, and so on.

Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.

It might have been really cool back in the '50s when it was less populated but I don't know.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

Ay, is it not a language I speak?