There are a lot of ways for a novelist to create suspense, but also really only two: one a trick, one an art. The trick is to keep a secret. Or many secrets, even. In Lee Child’s books, Jack Reacher always has a big mystery to crack, but there are ...
I watched 60 Minutes...and they showed this woman, she's in every kind of..thing like that. 'This woman', they say, 'she lost her first four children--died from malnutrition--and, now, she's afraid that her new six-month-old newborn twins will suffer...
know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. (stands, leans against a wall, looking out into the distance) It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. ...
The world, every day, is New. Only for those born in, say, 1870 or so, can there be a meaningful use of the term postmodernism, because for the rest of us we are born and we see and from what we see and digest we remake our world. And to understand i...
Keaton: Hey, uh... friend of mine in New York tells me that you know, that you knew Spook Hollis. Redfoot the Fence: The way I hear it, you did time with old Spook. Good man, wasn't he? I used to run dope for him. Too bad he got shivved. Keaton: Yeah...
A man fell into a pit and couldn't get himself out. A subjective person came along and said, "I feel for you down there." An objective person walked by and said, "It's logical that someone would fall down there." A Pharisee said, "Only bad people fal...
My life is so bad that it's worse than it really is.
To think is good. To obsess is bad.
Things are neither good nor bad , all that matters is our thinking....!
what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.
How bad could things be if my hair was neat?
...no one likes change unless it is from sommething bad to something good...
How bad does it have to be before you do something about it?
Bad things happen in dark places.
Funny, though, I don't feel too bad.
Hypocrites get offended by the truth.
I'm a giant pimple on the face of humanity.
Nothing's ever all bad if you think hard enough about it.
Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy of ridicule.
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
'Breaking Bad' is the best, the greatest, the most amazing thing I have ever watched on television.
