I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.
You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On the Discworld we know that There Be Dragons Everywhere. They might not all have scales and forked tongues, but they Be Here all right, grinnin...
I fix the cramped, lined pages with my curious stare. How do you come to exist?
One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.
I sucked that smoke in and made it part of me, joined mystically with the universe right at that point, said Yes to drugs forever just by the unique hit I got from that one packet of fags Andy liberated from his dad. It was a revelation, an epiphany;...
I have no idea what time it is in London, and have had too much wine to bother with the math to figure it out.
I too have drunk and seen the spider
Dying for someone is easy." J.T. murmured now; as if reading my mind."Living for yourself, that's hard.
The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the pl...
In the Soviet Union you weren’t allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.
In the global marketplace of the future the price of every product will tell the ecological truth.
People bicker so and have such rows. Even if they're fond of each other, they still seem to have rows and not to mind a bit whether they have them in public or not.
Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.
As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
There's only three things you need to do when you are finished editing your book - Sleep! Sleep! and Sleep!
The best part of being married is that now when we walk down the street, people won't just see two guys and a kid, they'll have to see a FAMILY.
From the intellectual point of view an abyss may exist between a great mathematician and his boot maker, but from the point of view of character the difference is most often slight or non-existent
With nature on your side, you don’t need numbers, you don’t need financing and you certainly don’t need to make friends with people you should be fighting against.
The flip side of the coin of which Good and Evil are but one side.
It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.
Wisdom is finding out that a cobra is deadly; without first having to lose one’s life.
