The stars glittered in the sky and as the number of people at the party grew there were merging conversations and laughter and bodies moving in outlines around the kegs of beer in a curtsy of youth.

Really, nobody was there?” I asked.“Well, nobody important, ” he said, putting his glasses back on and blinking.

There have been times I have thought some dreams should never be dreamt, but I would hate a world where that was true.

That weekend the city blushed with a great heat wave but on Monday it rained, cooling the ache in the street’s burn.

I have never lived a life so much larger than death. (93)

He took a deep breath. "I'm a dragon, Samantha." "Oh, my God." His lips twitched. "Even when I look like a man." "A dragon, " she repeated. "Yes.

During a warm winter rain ... the basins of her collarbones collected water.

Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife.

I would argue that security and liberty, security and privacy are not actually opposing. The only place those can be oppositional is in the realm of rhetoric but not fact.

You can do anything you want to do.

There are only those certain people where things click - at least for me.

I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that!

A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.

This body is a tent which for a space Does the pure soul with kingly presence grace; When he departs, comes the tent-pitcher, Death, Strikes it, and moves to a new halting-place.