The troops and their ladies had first drunk champagne. There were also remains of sandwiches, and I stepped on one, which I think was either cucumber or watercress. I scraped it off on the curbing, left it there for germs. I'll tell you this, though:...
The verb 'to darn' is explained in my pocket dictionary as follows: 'To mend by imitating the texture of the stuff, with thread and needle.' But this definition does not correspond to the work accomplished by good Chinese housewives. When they mend a...
After everything that's happened, her fear of requesting a prescription or of asking Trevor about his mother baffles her. Shouldn't life-altering events make you less afraid of the little stuff? But it's the little stuff that paralyzes her: talking, ...
How old are ?" asks Plastic again. "That doesn't matter," says StingRay. "What matters is how much stuff I know. People who know a lot of stuff don't need birthdays.
If I could change the attitude of young men toward literature, I would want them to read not just for escape, but because literature can be more truthful about things like sex, commitment, and aging. It can be more truthful about the stuff that our p...
A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the origin of aggression, the origin o...
And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the wei...
Peeta Mellark: See, Katniss, the way the whole "friend" thing works is you have to tell each other the deep stuff. Katniss Everdeen: The deep stuff? Peeta Mellark: Yeah. Katniss Everdeen: Uh-oh. Like what? Peeta Mellark: Like, uh... what's your favor...
There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.
New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.
People think getting a new partner is like getting a new car.
Well-reported news is a public good; bad news is bad for everyone.
If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.
I love New York. I've always loved New York.
This call for a new culture is not a new idea.
I like being in new places and seeing new sights.
Stuff your brain with knowledge.
The universe is all time stuff.
I don't like fancy fiddly girlie stuff.
I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.
