Personally, I don't believe in anything more supernatural than what you read about in the Bible, and I only believe that one day out of seven.

Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter: But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter!

You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see.

The attacking piece displaces its victim. The vanquished piece leaves the plane of the board entirely. But it does not, in a higher sense, cease to exist.

I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise.

Times like this, with the wind moving the grass and curling around her like a huge cool hand, Tess felt the world as a second presence, as another person, as if the wind and the grass had voices of their own and she could hear them talking.

One doesn't have to understand in order to look. One has to look, in order to understand.