Serena has spent her life fighting fiction the way good soldiers fight—intent on detecting its presence, harassing it, suppressing it—but I have to find a way to show her she’s mistaken her enemy, to explain to her that whoever suppresses ficti...
Más o menos cada diez años echo una mirada hacia el pasado y puedo ver el mapa de mi viaje, si es que eso puede llamarse un mapa; parece más bien un plato de tallarines. Si uno vive lo suficiente y mira para atrás, es obvio que no hacemos más qu...
Hermes gazed up at the stars. "My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it. It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don...
Because we suddenly see that making everything all right would NOT make everything all right. We would not be human beings. We would then be no more than puppets obeying the strings of the master puppeteer. We agree sadly that it is a good thing that...
Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulp down the entire history of the New World. From the Spanish exp...
1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal; 2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it; 3) anything t...
I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.
America demands invention and innovation to succeed.
If I need something, I'll invent it.
The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
God invented concubinage, satan marriage.
Life is an experiment to invent yourself again and again.
Man keeps inventing things all the time.
Accurst be he that first invented war.
Money is only a human invention.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
Dance was invented for those who could not hear.
Sometimes an artist's first invention is herself.
The way of war was the invention of heavenly beings.
