Quotes About Author

Really it was like trying to solve a crime in the Stock Exchange, the way the mildest mention of sex interrupted business.

'Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.

Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say health care; that's an intention, not an objective.

The Adam story, then, is not simply about the past. It's about Israel's present brought into the past—even as far past as the beginning of the human drama itself.

Zehr, Paul M. Biblical Criticism in the Life of the Church. Harrisonburg, VA: Herald, 1986.

N. T. Wright's Justification: God's Plan and Paul's Vision or What Paul Really Said.

The story of Adam and Eve is a preview of Israel's long journey in the Old Testament as a whole.

What I discovered, and what I want to pass along to you in this book, is that this view of the Bible does not come from the Bible but from an anxiety over protecting the Bible and so regulating the faith of those who read it.

And here's another important dimension of this book. When we accept that biblical invitation, we will see not only how the Bible challenges us to work out what it means to live the life of faith here and now. We will also see—if I may stress the point once again—how the biblical writers themselves were already challenged by the need to move past a rulebook mentality and respond to new circumstances with wisdom.

Doesn't it have any safety systems?" she yelled at Ranto as she curved around again. He shrugged. "Drive safe," he suggested.

She returned her attention to the tall captain. She was annoyed at the way his gaze seemed to be fastened on her breasts.

London said frog, and we all hopped

climbed along things he called tree reefs that live in a nebula of gas dense enough to breathe.

Stellar coordinates? she mused. But it was unlikely anyone on the planet would have had the first clue about such things.

just how naïve could a porn star be?

In this reality, she would doubtless tell you she must respect the local constitution, or some nonsense justification.

Greg had flown them on fifteen missions in Turkey

the Silfen wouldn't let her use their paths and worlds as a refuge.

It does seem somewhat classical. One can hardly credit that Dante did actually get shown around Hell.

We really love all sports, but we don't think in the long term. The reason we did Kingpin was because there was a script we really liked and we saw the possibilities.

You are perhaps the most accomplished confidence man since Charles Ponzi. I'd say you were a carnival barker, but that wouldn't be fair to carnival barkers. to former Enron CEO Keny Lay

elaborated the notion of procedural memories based on the nonconscious implicit use of past experience

So far as the facts in the case are concerned, Dr Howell and I had called our book a 'true' history.

commented on Freud's unvarying courtesy: he inquired after others, and never showed signs of impatience or irritability. He would not be infantilized by his disease. On August 13, his nephew Harry