She grinned, a silty grin. 'You were my two dividends, yes? Don't you forget that.'Then she sighed, took a deep breath, and said, 'But what an investment. My life.

Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee.

Was there a drain?''No. There was no drain. There isn't one even now'.

What is it about the sea? Is it because it’s there?

In this city, every deserted street corner conceals a crowd. It appears in a minute when something disrupts the way in which the world is supposed to work. It can disappear almost as instantaneously.

No day shall erase you from the memory of time

Bent but never broken

Even fairy tales have limits, " said Sophie. "Three people can't have an Ever After. Not without me being alone.

When you see zombies, they're typically in a horde. A big group close together, as if they were just holding hands before you saw them and they quickly let go.

Comedy can reach many more people than, say, a serious lecture on the topic. And comedy might just be the access point to reach people who want to be entertained and also learn something.

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek

A Wolf eats sheep but now and then; Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretend friend is worse.

I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.

I'm all in favor of poets telling about the process as much as they can. And many do.