for a moment, she let herself be defeated, wished herself not exactly annihilation but into a temporary absense, into being nowhere and no one just for a little while.

mia knew the weight that said nothing will ever be different from what it is now, that the world has lost all dimension and has turned to stone.

Anthony looked down at his evil clutches -- hands, he reminded himself, hands -- and grinned anew.

Just as we will never grasp the full meaning of God, we will also never grasp the full meaning of love.

To know your way round a library is to master the whole of culture, i.e. the whole world.

There's always more than what meets the eye. If you dig in deep enough and pay attention, you can really see the beauty in a person.

Steel is prince or pauper.

Periodical godliness is perpetual hypocrisy.

My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.

Frank [Moore Cross], publicly dissects the text but he has a private, passionate relationship to the text that he doesn't often speak of publicly.

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.

It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don't, you miss the whole point.