This is one of the problems with reality: the extent to which it resembles bad fiction.

The odds seemed pretty long from where I was standing, certainly, but then again, I reminded myself, the history of science was in many ways an almanac of highly unlikely victories.

This was what we did as a species, after all: we built ingenious devices, and we destroyed things.

Only in Xanth would parents see a dragon looming over their children and depart with confidence.

Branding is simply pattern recognition, established across multiple tiers of application and fueled by the energy of money.

The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.

It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.

I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me.

Well I've never been to England But I kind of like the Beatles.

As my exciting story began I was being punched in the stomach.

Friendship is but a name. I love no one.

Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life.

No, I had never intentionally caused anyone physical pain, but I had hurt Ian deeply enough just by hurting myself. Human lives were so impossibly tangled. What a mess.