You scared the life out of me.""Good thing cats have nine lives, then, " she teased.

What am I?" she asked ..."You are mine, " he answered roughly, his forehead still on hers.

Telling a male lion not to be a lion wasn't exactly the easiest thing in the world.

She was the last lightning-struck without a mate, and therefore, human.

so much dependsupona red wheelbarrowglazed with rainwaterbeside the whitechickens.

Imitate the traits of your creator

Most principles are limp until they are tested.

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.

exercise will never be my lover. Or even my friend. For me, a workout is more like an annoying coworker I have to see a few times a week.

I am the opposite of boring, but I'm a little reckless, and I'm not against taking risks, and I think I'm always down for an adventure.

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be?

[D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening in our minds is all and everything that happens.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'