There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding.

Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.

That would have been a nice place, inside an idea, but it wasn't a place to live. It was necessary to live where the idea and the fact collided.

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Rape culture is a concept of unknown origin and of uncertain definition

Thank heaven I have given up smoking again! . . . God! I feel fit. A different man. Irritable moody depressed rude perhaps . . . but the lungs are fine.

So, technically," Simon said, "even though Jace isn't actually related to you, you have kissed your brother.

I drink a lot of water and always try to stay hydrated.

There is such a thing as honest pride and self-respect.

Fear drives away love. Without love, there is no surrender of all our inner cares and worries to the Mahanta (our inner guide).

I don't mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey.

This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.

Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.

Is calling English our national language racist? Are we at that point?