And yet it's there, we witnessed it being lit. And fires once lit have to burn until they spend themselves or someone extinguishes them, ” Anaxantis said, with some deep regret coating his voice.

However, what he wanted was impossible: the serenity of the Gods cannot be achieved by the sword.

There always seem to be very rich people, no matter how poor the country, ” Thenoclon said.

This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.

Monsters are not born they are made.

Everyone would have bigger and safer cars if they didn't have those CAFE standards: corporate average fuel economy.

I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea! I am where I would ever be, With the blue above and the blue below, And silence wheresoever I go.

The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it's chiseled in bronze.

Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.

The fact that my clothing has been visually available to other people I do not find upsetting. The body is another matter. It is mine; I have found it useful; but it is an avatar.

A metaphor cannot be paraphrased

I've had well-paid jobs, but in comparison to what footballers earn, I've not earned serious money.

Literature is a peculiarly public product of a particularly private endeavor.