You shouldn’t leave your window unlocked. Who knows who could get in?” Della Lee said, single-handedly debunking the long-held belief that if you dotted your…

Doctor Who is the truest expression of Joseph Campbell’s Hero with a Thousand Faces ever conceived. The idea of an alien, come down to earth, repeatedly dying and resurrecting for the salvation of others is...

Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.

It smelled pretty rank, but I was getting used to the smell of death, as much as anyone could get used to it.

The Democrats, fearful of his grassroots campaign, blamed him for the election of George W. Bush, an absurdity that found fertile ground among those who had abandoned rational inquiry for the thought-terminating clichés of television.

Time to the face the music,

As we admit our inadequacy to run the race alone and accept God’s gracious redemption, then the race begins to have meaning, validity, and most of all, freedom.

Like people would ever want to read books on an electronic screen.

that you will become entrapped in someone else’s recent careless thoughts.

It’s a beautiful way to put it: Leave the poetry in what you make. When something becomes too polished, it loses its soul. It seems robotic.

I had no way of anticipating the adjustments I would have to make and the suffering I would have to endure in the months and years ahead.

WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They...

They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.

Builder pattern is more verbose than the telescoping constructor pattern, so it should be used only if there are enough parameters, say, four or more.

because we all know that the books we’ve loved best are seldom the ones we esteem the most highly

The Sabbath, I said, is not only an idea. It is also something you keep. With other people. You can’t just extract lessons from it.

outside,” that it all came down to X’s and O’s that could be acquired in any number of different ways, but the pain increased to a point where I thought I might collapse, and I...

Or he’d watch the news: more plagues, more famines, more floods, more insect or microbe or small-mammal outbreaks, more droughts, more chickenshit boy-soldier wars in distant countries. Why was everything so much like itself?

Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of the might within the land, bearers of a spark from the...

A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope.

Living on purpose means stopping to make sure your actions still match your big goals.

However, for the purposes of migrating existing Rails applications to services, the shared database approach may be necessary in the early stages.

Starting isn’t like that. Starting something is not an event; it’s a series of events. You decide to walk to Cleveland. So you take a first step in the right direction. That’s starting. You spend...

You going to be a scientist when you grow up?” That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.

cherish” comes to mind. When we cherish someone, we combine looking and compassion—we notice and care for that person. We don’t shut him or her out.

Deep in the meadow, under the willowa bed of grass, a soft green pillow lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyesand when again they open, the sun will rise.Hear it’s safe, here it’s...

these groups followed some solitary passer-by, hurrying his steps; one after another the doors were closed, one after

we have quoted freely from the Scriptures and have sought to furnish proof-texts for every statement we have advanced.

American socialism had lost momentum even before the war. (Socialist leader Norman Thomas received 885,000 votes in his 1932 run for the presidency, but only 187,500 in 1936.)

A popular management term used to describe efficiency is called “working smart.” We are told that if we work smart instead of hard, we will be more productive. But if we do work “smart” then...

They were not bound to regard with affection a thing that could not sympathise with one amongst them; a heterogeneous thing, opposed to them in temperament, in capacity, in propensities; a useless thing, incapable of...

Bilbo Baggins was standing at his door after breakfast smoking an enormous long wooden pipe that reached nearly down to his woolly toes (neatly brushed)—Gandalf came by.

It was only later, in her new, darker rooms above the banking house, that she realized it didn’t matter how loud she screamed or how violently she wept. Her parents would never come to her...

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

I review my three boyfriends, the three men I slept with in my twenties, searching for a common thread. Nothing. No consistent features, coloring, stature, personality. But one theme does emerge: they all picked me....

We take creative license with the fictional narratives that become our memories. Anthologized, these are the tales that become the story of your life.

silence across the field. When they reached the edge of the forest, Claire’s anxiety faded. It really would be easier

I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid’s knee.

In the new American ghetto, the nightmare engine is bubble economics, a kind of high-tech casino scam that kills neighborhoods just like dope does, only the product is credit, not crack or heroin. It concentrates...

What am I coming for?” he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. “You know that I have come to be where you are,” he said; “I can’t help it.

There is a rock of greed over here, Father. I can’t budge it. And that tree of guilt near the fence? Its roots are long and deep. And may I show you some dry soil,...

It made one mad, for pleasure; and we could not take our eyes from him, and the looks that went out of our eyes came from our hearts, and their dumb speech was worship.

Mother Astarte who creates and destroys. Kybele, goddess of all that is, was, and ever shall be,” he invoked.

But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by...

Never make a decision until you have to.

Weźmy twój rozum. Na pozór wydaje się, że myślisz w sposób uporządkowany, logiczny i sensowny. Ale wszyscy wiemy, że w twojej głowie kwitnie istna dżungla nonsensów. Twój umysł to poskręcany, chaotyczny zlepek przypadkowych informacji, które...

our countrymen are starving, she is decorating herself with diamond aigrettes!

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide…

Eisenhower has been much criticized for his failure publicly to endorse the Court’s decision. But he felt that doing so would set an undesirable precedent. If a president endorsed decisions he agreed with, might he...

It’s a tiresome proposition, having to take up the work of the Enlightenment all over again, but it’s happened on your watch.