The Doctor is a myth. He’s straight out of Old English folklore, typical trickster figure really.”29 Neither part of an ongoing narrative, nor specifically located within the series’ past, Cabinet is in a position to...

The craving today is for something light and spicy, and few have patience, still less desire, to examine carefully that which would make a demand both upon their hearts and

But he knows New York. He doesn’t know Alicante—

as self-knowledge develops, we begin to care more about what we think and less about what others ask of us. We

I had not, it seems, the originality to chalk out a new road to shame and destruction, but trode the old track with stupid exactness not to deviate an inch from the beaten centre. 

I suppose hobbits need some description nowadays, since they have become rare and shy of the Big People, as they call us. They are (or were) a little people, about half our height, and smaller...

Death, however clearly foretold, still came unexpectedly.

I tried to be as inconspicuous as possible as I lay the sausage against my ear. Abruptly, my cell phone went dead. A drop of grease dribbled into the dead center of my ear, creeping...

I don’t know. She was a sweet girl. As sweet as they come. I don’t know why I didn’t love her. It’s something you can’t really control.

Hats, like first husbands in my experience, are usually a mistake.

Cody, will you take me to the nearest clinic? I need someone to dig the knife out of my back. Lexis might need it again. And the good doctor might want to give me a...

Harris said, however, that the river would suit him to a “T.” I don’t know what a “T” is (except a sixpenny one, which includes bread-and- butter and cake AD LIB., and is cheap at...

This chapter is an attempt to share with you some insights about story listening and how to do it.

Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people–that’s in your hands.

Though you see nothing, he is acting.

Getekend is een duizelingwekkend mooi familie-epos dat een halve eeuw bestrijkt.

They’re nasty bits about famous people; everyone will want them.

this is the greatest good to man, to discourse daily on virtue, and other things which you have heard me discussing, examining both myself and others,

Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.

The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. Of course, Tally thought, you’d have to feed your cat only salmon-flavored cat food for a while, to get the pinks right.

Three years with Claudia had taught Ruso that when a woman said something did not matter and refused to tell you what it was, it usually mattered a great deal—to her, if not to you....

Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame...

Call me Richard. That’s my real name. Call me that.

He hadn’t altogether gotten it himself until this moment of seeing straight through to the soul of her.

The Good Nazi.” The Jews and Samaritans hated one another.

Execution is everything. Even if you start a business with the wrong idea or too many competitors, you can out-execute all the better ideas in the right market.

There’s a lot of dirty theology out there, the religious counterpart to dirty politics and dirty business, I suppose. You might call it spiritual pornography—a kind of for-profit exploitative nakedness. It’s found in many of...

this process isn’t suitable for complex decisions that have nuance, and those who use it in such situations run the risk of being perceived as rubberstamping when the decision had already been made.

yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut

It is an emotional and an enchanted place. If the study of the conscious mind highlights the importance of reason and analysis, study of the unconscious mind highlights the importance of passions and perception.

It’s at moments like these in a game that the essentials of his character are exposed: narrow, ineffectual, stupid—and morally so. The game becomes an extended metaphor of character defect. Every error he makes is...

mad at me. For Dad, parenting has become just like shooting one of his stupid insurance ads-some makeup to cover the blemishes, a flashy smile, and wham! He’s got himself a regular picture-perfect family.

He tried to read, but the words swam in front of his eyes in meaningless waves. He put on the television. Nick at Nite, the cultural equivalent of aerosol cheese.

They’re both bungholes who think they’re too noble to shit,

He sent Zuckerberg a letter proposing Viacom would pay $1.5 billion to buy the two-year-old company.

The little things are important, Mr. Wind-Up Bird,

Owning pipelines, people, products, or even intellectual property is no longer the key to success. Openness is.

We kill cows. We kill trees. So big deal, we kill some drug dealers.” It was hard to argue with that kind of logic because I like cows and chickens and trees much better than...

It’s my belief that animals can help a human being travel to the wounds of childhood. The best part is, once you go there, you can fix things. Get on with life.

First, love one another very deeply, and don’t be ashamed to express your love openly and often. Also, enjoy one another, and guard zealously your time together so as to enjoy it to the fullest...

long middle finger resembling a twig that it could use for probing for grubs. There is a telling example of convergent evolution when an unrelated species (the Long-Fingered Possum from Papua New Guinea) devised a...

God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities.

for my characters to endure. Chapter

Rise Up, O Men of God” (Hymns, no. 324) is a plea, a call, a divine invitation for us to rise above the telestial tinsel of our time; to deny ourselves of ungodliness and clothe...

Florence which included diplomatic missions to various European courts.

Tasting comes before drinking.

If all the evidence in the universe turned in favour of creationism, I would be the first to admit it, and I would immediately change my mind. As things stand, however, all available evidence (and...

It is of the highest importance from the standpoint of experience that we know the Holy Spirit as a person.

We often speak of creating an environment for reading, a reading climate.

One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.