Her underwear, her jeans, the comforter, my corduroys and my boxers between us, I thought. Five layers, and yet I felt it, the nervous warmth of touching – a pale reflection of the fireworks of...

I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain, about to blast apart at great danger to anyone standing nearby....

It’s a system that moves very slowly, and will create tension for us for many days. It will be a long battle.

The artist is often misunderstood because, stepping outside himself and holding most details in great tension, he’s about as complex as a shape-shifter; or a head with faces on all sides, but not necessarily in...

He saw tears rimming her blue eyes, tears that washed away Drizzt’s anger, that told him that what had happened between himself and Catti-brie had apparently not been so deeply buried. The last time they...

The current political tension is very serious…. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive

No, on the outside view there was nothing for anyone to notice about me. I remained one pillar of a trinity, another pillar was lying only temporarily (temporarily! temporarily! temporarily!) in the hospital, I was...

For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.

Music is like a huge release of tension.

She’d stutter all the reasons why she shouldn’t, shaking her head adamantly. But her body..her body would grow hot with excitement. She’d get wet at the thrill of it. So fucking wet that i’d smell...

When I began writing stories and exercise books I tried to put off all the things I really wanted to write about till at least the second page. I thought it wouldn’t be like a...

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is...