The boy with the haunted eyes was Dory's secret. Eli. And she knew that she had to see him again.

There's a bit of a local legend about a jet heart that has turned up over the years, " Flynn said. "Any time it turns up, strange things happen.

A black pendant in the shape of a heart lay in her hand. It was carved with roses and strung onto a velvet cord.

Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy.

After all, it is we who adapt to the machine. The machine does not adapt to us.

Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability of that belief.

Hard work is for people short on talent.

My elaboration of the story always conforms to the reality at its source. It is always close to the world, the life, the reality it describes. No matter where I go, I’m still holding up a mirror.

People don't really know whether they are committed to something until they face adversity.

When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.

They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance.

Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of our energy was dedicated to the noble liberation of the human mind and spirit, beginning with my own.