How does something so invisible make one so invincible?

She wondered how to mourn the death of a son who wasn't dead. And yet the loss of separation made that easy. The idea of pain made pain, where she knew none could possibly truly exist.

The days before, even the score of what you are filled in with today. What colour are you, the tangled hues of years gone by that affected you?

With his blond hair, broad shoulders, and perpetual tan, Bryce looked like a California underwear model. Not that I’d thought about him in his underwear.Much.

How my life has been brought to undiscovered lands, and how much richer it gets - all from words printed on a page.... How a book can have 560 pages, but in only three pages change the reader's life.

Networked science has the potential to speed up dramatically the rate of discovery across all of science.

One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue.

I believe that - if you are serious about a life of writing, or indeed about any creative form of expression - that you should take on this work like a holy calling.

The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

I did not particularly enjoy modeling. I felt I was only utilizing 10 or 20 percent of my abilities. In India, it's just another job.

The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed.

And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.

Video games have become this really weird medium where it's not quite mainstream but it's not quite art either.