The sun had now set the sky ablaze with glorious hues of orange. She squinted to focus in the brilliance and thoughts of distant fire breathing dragons lit up her imagination once again.

Mr. Monogamy doesn’t find my shenanigans funny? Oh thank god, if you did I’d have to chuck it all and join a monastery.

He would wake up knowing that as long as he was capable of having such beautiful dreams, a part of him must still be good.

, “How can one mock these flamingo wine glasses. When, they are so obviously awesome.

She smiled as she imagined that the sun’s last rays were flames from a distant dragon.

I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.

I don't think there's anything, any threat out there today that anyone can point to, that justifies placing an entire population under mass surveillance.

It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.

It's a great idea: to feel the rhythm of something by seeing how it flows on a page.

When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?

The bones of the skeleton which support the body can become the bars of the cage which imprison the spirit.

Jokes are one of the things that bind the culture. If you can't have jokes about everybody in society and if one group is hedged off and protected then that group can never truly be integrated.

Be careful what you shoot at . . . most things in here don't react too well to bullets.