The rhythm of fraught footsteps and fervent heartbeat orchestrated a symphony of anticipation and dread.

This was a Darkness born of fire.

Such a distant, forgotten thing, this Light.

The sun does not abandon the moon to darkness.

Am I your weakness?""Of course you are.

The threat of war hung on the air like a thick fog and it blinded him until he could see nothing beyond the haze. Even the stars grew faint.

The present is never tidy, or certain, or reasonable, and those who try to make it so once it becomes the past succeed only in making it seem implausible.

God help us for we knew the worst too young.

Other friends have said, "I don't understand why you've used this trumpet-style sound rather than a real one when you know you can write for trumpet." But it's most important to get the energy right.

Even for the very best programmers ah, sometimes you'll see someone else's program or somebody will come along and they'll show you what can be done in a simpler way.

Every two people cause and intersection. Every person alters the world.

Patriarchy's chief institution is the family. It is both a mirror of and a connection with the larger society; a patriarchal unit within a patriarchal whole.

Your love is a fierce thing, Elena, a thing with claws and teeth when it comes to protecting those you claim.

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.

At certain point, you realize it's easy to play music for the rest of your life: just don't sell your guitar. Maybe you get a day job, but as long as you have a guitar, you can play.