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[Charles] Reznikoff was in between faiths, in between worlds... a double, hyphenated American. I think it probably goes deeper than that.
You can look at my autobiographical pieces as source books... But, you see, my fiction doesn't revolve around autobiographical questions.
'The Cabin at the End of the World' is my riff on the 'home invasion' subgenre of horror/suspense. Hopefully it's a big, loud, dark riff.
Vitamin D from mushrooms is not only vegan and vegetarian friendly, but you can prepare your own by exposing mushrooms to the summer sun.
Politicians, please, think of yourselves! Move to help Terri Schiavo, and no one will be mad at you, and you'll keep a human being alive.
If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities.
Knowledge is being applied to knowledge itself. It is now fast becoming the one factor in production, sidelining both capital and labour.
An invention or new combination can be successful only if all if the elements necessary for the recombination are present in the culture.
When I set up my Web site, I made a guestbook so kids can write to me there, and that's become one of the most popular parts of the site.
Don't accept the limitations of other people who claim things are 'unchangeable'. If it's written in stone, bring your hammer and chisel.
Whoever eats anything at a wedding luncheon? They make the food out of papier mache. My salad had been used four or five times this week.
The Philadelphia Feds manufacturers report for September revealed that despite a sharp slowdown, its prices paid index surged 257 points.
Socially smart people have always mocked the threateningly mobile, and anti-branding is a central strand of high-end status conflict now.
Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more . . . And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less
Jesus was a master of grace: he attracted sinners and moral outcasts even as he offended the religious and responsible people of his day.
We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.
When you treat your time as though you are a machine; a doing machine; you are committing violence against the sacredness of life itself.
A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish.
Desire is poison at lunch and wormwood at dinner; your bed is a stone, friendship is hateful and your fancy is always fixed on one thing.
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.
Here we find further argument for Gotagga’s supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers?
Thy infinite gifts come to me only on these very small hands of mine. Ages pass, and still thou pourest, and still there is room to fill.
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.
No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.
You don’t have to be the kind of beautiful that everyone can agree on. If the right person finds you beautiful, you win. You win forever.
Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.’
I think the weirdest question I've ever gotten was, 'If people had wheels and could fly, how would we differentiate them from airplanes?'
People will ask you the question 'how is life treating you?' But my question is 'how are you treating life?' On that your happiness rests
I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.
There was too much hatred in the world; it was manifestly as dangerous as gunpowder, yet people let it lie about, in the way of ignition.
The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.
I cannot forget my mother. [S]he is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.
If you follow a religion but are devoid of the Love of God, then those that do not follow a religion but have the love of God are better.
In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.
All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.
We cannot protect something we do not love, we cannot love what we do not know, and we cannot know what we do not see. Or hear. Or sense.
This seems clear enough: When truly present in nature, we do use all our senses at the same time, which is the optimum state of learning.
To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, its only because we havent been able to understand it yet.
People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment.
You’ll know her by a crown of stars and flowers, and then when you take her to your bed and claim her, you will swear your loyalty to me.
Life’s like that. As we grow and change, some things we’ve experience before take on new meaning. It’ll happen for the rest of your life.
What are you, Rose Hathaway? Are you real? You're a dream within a dream. I'm afraid touching you will make me wake up. You'll disappear.
I nodded. "Yup. What I did was tantamount to treason in their eyes." "I don't know what 'tantamount' means, but it sounds pretty serious.
Well, well, well," I said. "If it isn't the people responsible for unleashing Rose Hathaway on the world. You've got a lot to answer for.
He shook his head in mock sympathy. "I tell you, Sage. Sometimes I think I am the one who needs to take out the restraining order on you.
Escape plan #5: Open an alpaca ranch in Texas, one that requires all blond-haired, brown-eyed, brainy girls to wear sexy cowgirl outfits.
The Great Commission to go into all the world is not only geographical, but must include every field, profession, discipline, sport, etc.
Piper, you’re the strongest, most powerful beauty queen I’ve ever met. You can trust yourself. For what it’s worth, you can trust me too.
Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment.