The platform underneath the balloon fell on her as she was trying to escape,” she explained. “She was crushed.””I’d have been disappointed too.

As I stepped onto the gloomy landing a word formed in my mind: two syllables, starts with a V and rhymes with dire. I froze in place. Nightingale said that everything was true, after a...

People in blind love throw away common sense, conscience and comedy from the life.

Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life...

Though the color would be fetching on him

Sometimes the walk to the doctors is a better cure than the medicine you receive

Kat moaned that I’d plowed my way in here, why couldn’t I plow us back out. I made a sick joke about the only kind of plowing I wanted to do was into her.

We can’t all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the pie.

Without pride, man becomes a parasite – and there are already too many parasites.

Each day of the week, Kalist indulges himself in a different, secret ritual. On Mondays, he wears cologne. On Tuesdays, he eats meat for lunch. On Wednesdays, he places a bet after work. On Thursdays,...

As he grew older, which was mostly in my absence, my firstborn son, Alexander, became ever more humorous and courageous. There came a time, as the confrontation with the enemies of our civilization became more...

Now Leroux, what think youOf this twist to the story?

I give you full credit for the discovery, I crawl, I grovel, my name is Watson, and you need not say what you were just going to say, because I admit it all.

She knows all about black holes.

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

Paperwork wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for all the paper. And the work.

Si vous n’êtes plus capable de faire la différence entre Laura et une image, je vous plains, monsieur Valence. La vie ne doit pas être marrante.

This isn’t the first time I’ve used this, and the test subject showed no signs of impaired cognitive ability.””Who was the test subject?” asked Aurora.”I test everything out on myself before taking it into the...

Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

Duke to Michel: I’m fairly certain that even ifyou’d struggle in a quiz against a pigeon, you are capable enough of opening doors.

If you cannot find an element of Humour in something, your not taking it seriously enough.

All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing – and he won’t be missed either.

While the archetype of the tinker is generally the whipping person in classical bedtimes stories, this particular individual was a tinker by trade and just happened to be economically disadvantaged.

Maxim 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy. No more. No less.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Form is temporary; I’m permanent.

When he pursed his lips and dropped a hand into his coat pocket, the last thing Nur expected him to pull out was a cricket ball. “I’d hoped for a disruptor at least,” she muttered...

I think people would live a bit longer if they didn’t know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.

You better not be dead. This team is already overflowing with ankle spankers. I was looking forward to having more women around.” Yara’s eyelids fluttered open. She blinked a few times, focused on him, and...

It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep a hole you had managed to burrow for yourself

Should I have brought my diploma?

Pity, I’ve learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can’t stand anyone else’s.

is it a big ass firm or a big firm ass?

Yo Mama sucks so much d***, her lips went double platinum.

When you keep a secret from your parents, you’re not trying to protect yourself. It’s because you’re trying to protect them.

If heaven was created only for the most stupid clown, then Mr Bean could have been the only righteous man on earth.

All of it—for this. Leading us to a door we can’t open, a password we don’t have.

A nonhuman animal had better have a good lawyer. In 1508, Bartholomé Chassenée earned fame and fortune for his eloquent representation of the rats of his French province. These rats had been charged with destroying...

Today I tried to pick up something I was standing on. It didn’t work out well.

I wash the clothes, rinse them and then scrub them again. Will that square little box do that? I am not using any fancy machines when my hands will do.

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one’s eyes, and does not look at him.

The strong man lit a cigarette. It looked too frail for his hand. They looked like King Kong and Fay Wray, that hand, that cigarette. There was a movie going on right under his nose...

He needed to gather her up, hold on to her, anything to help her stop trembling. Something was going to shake loose if she didn’t.

The Americans have perfected weather forecasts: a model presents a model of the Earth, a map, and jabs at it with her pointer – here and here, this is going to happen. Voodoo.

Colorful characters are the odd shaped pieces that fill the holes in life’s puzzle.

They seek him here. They seek him there. Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in Heaven? Or is he in Hell? That damned, illusive pimpernel.

Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you.

The Classic Notting Hill junkie, i.e; Armani underwear, Pink’s shirt and Burberry belt tourniquets

Even from far away, I could see people being chased by hellhounds, burned at the stake, forced to run naked through cactus patches or listen to opera music.

Idiocy in the modern age isn’t an all-encompassing, twenty-four-hour situation for most people. It’s a condition that everybody slips into many times a day. Life is just too complicated to be smart all the time.