The honours system gets to grade people. Graded grains make finer rice.

In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth.

When you are in the future, the past looks different.

Life is a bliss only if you carefully understand it.

A clean house is a sad house.

Just give us until Rome.” The tears escaped. “Just give us until Rome, Melanie.

Percy is the most powerful demigod I've ever met. No offense to you guys but it's true.

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of Independence. I work at the National Archives in Washington.

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.

I'm scared of haunted things, like hearing noises in my house and stuff. That scares me.

Nature is what you don't have to trouble about. It looks after itself.

Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious dogma.