Whenever Percy stopped by to see [Annabeth], she was so lost in thought that the conversation went something like this: Percy: 'Hey, how's it going?'….

It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certai….

Life's the longest picture you're ever gonna take..

I do have a ridiculously high hedonic set-point.

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire..

I love that "furious and gorgeous barrage." That helps me see the relation between the introduction and the book's final section, where writing about….

Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!” he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say ‘out of the frying-pan into the fire’ in the same sort ….

Prometheus heretofore went up to Heaven, and stole fire from thence. Have not I as much Boldness as he?.

Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke..

i held it up, and tried to channel happy dog thoughts toward Cerberus- Alpo commercials, cute little puppies, fire hydrants..

Despair is our chance to wrestle with fire and come through..

When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color..

Travelling to past lives is like making a hole in the floor and letting the flames of the fire in the apartment below scorch and burn the present.

It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and ….

When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea need….

Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering hordes! How shall l….

I do everything myself, from engine start to engine shutdown. In a war, I will face alone the missiles and the flak and the small-arms fire over the ….

From wherever the emissions come, they have the same effect: They trap much more heat from the sun, melt the ice, raise the sea level, cause stronger….

What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter's day?.

The grass is always greener around the fire hydrant..

This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they're doi….