'Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.' -- from The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams I'm so...

All of a sudden he thought: If people are reunited in Heaven (I don’t believe it, but suppose), then how shall I stop it from creeping upon me, that shriveled, helpless, lame thing, her soul? But this is the earth, and I am, curiously enough, alive, and there is...

Today is Easter Sunday, the day on which Christians celebrate the Resurrection of their Lord and Savior. Non-Christians, and most Christians, too, for that matter, celebrate the arrival of a large rabbit that scatters eggs around the house in a perverse re-enactment...

Who lost none of them because he could not remember his sister but only the loss of her... -- William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury Benjamin, our lastborn, sold into Egypt, remembered none of the glad times, only the hollowness of the absence of Candace, and then...

In this circumstance, Plato tells us, the larger quantity of fire will weigh more, for it will be more difficult to drag the larger quantity away from the main body of the element to which it belongs. -- Denis O'Brien, Theories of Weight in the Ancient World Plato...

Mathematical platonism is the metaphysical view that there are abstract mathematical objects whose existence is independent of us and our language, thought, and practices. - Øystein Linnebo, Platonism in the Philosophy of Mathematics The Mobius Strip is slung about as...

It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever... All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist. -- Kurt Vonnegut,...

In the garden, growth has its seasons. First comes Spring and Summer, but then we have Fall and Winter. And then we get Spring and Summer again. As long as the roots are not severed, all is well. And all will be well in the garden. -- Chance, Being There When one's...

He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night when the insomniac longs for a third side after trying the two he has. ― Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin Timofey Pnin lived, somewhat unstuck in time, floating between two worlds: the...

'Overwhelmed!' by Zebvlon is the soundtrack to that coming-of-age movie that makes you shudder when you recall your previous cringeworthy innocence, the film with the ending that we all want but never get, as two separating spirits smile and wave across an empty...