Inhuman, V says. But that's an easy word. We've been doing that sort of thing to each other all through history, back past the Pyramids. Humans are inhuman, whether it's by direct action or by accepta...
He told her about the first time he had looked on the back of her neck as she sat in the church pew. Of the feeling that had never let go of him since. He talked to her of the great waste of years bet...
Children don’t judge their own lives. Normal for them is what’s laid before them day by day. Judgment comes later.
Then tell me of your long journey home, Ada said.Inman thought about it, but then he let himself imagine he had at last come out on the far side of trouble and had no wish to revisit it, so he told on...
And all the ministers of the various types of local Baptists had declined to participate in retribution for Monroe’s failure to believe in a God with severe limitations on His patience and mercy.
So, standing here looking at you, all grown up, the question I ask is simple. In the long run, how different is a goddam hot dog from a Vienna sausage?
Musicians add to songs and they evolve: For as was true of human effort, there was never advancement. Everything added meant something lost, and about as often as not the thing lost was preferable to...
History in the making, at least on the personal level, is almost exclusively pathetic. People suffer and die in ignorance and delusion.
You never know when somebody will pull you to them.
Survive long enough and you get to a far point in life where nothing else of particular interest is going to happen. After that, if you don’t watch out, you can spend all your time tallying your losse...
It is tempting to look back at Bear’s people from the perspective of this modern world and see them as changeless and pure, authentic people in ways impossible for anybody to be anymore. We need Noble...
Humans are inhuman, whether it’s by direct action or by acceptance of a horrible action as normal.
Ada wondered about his hundreds of tunes. Where were they now and where might they go if he died.
So of course time is necessary. But nevertheless damn painful, for it transforms all the pieces of your life - joy and sorrow, youth and age, love and hate, terror and bliss - from fire into smoke ris...
Remembering doesn’t change anything—it will always have happened. But forgetting won’t erase it either.
Nothing changes what alreaday happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.
Lily's spirit neediness expressed itself raw as a kerosene blaze in the material world.
Like when the counselor delved into your habits of using a public toilet, such as do you flush with your foot and use your elbow to open the door? If yes, woe unto you. You're crazy.
It does your mind good to talk to people different from you.
I decided that many of Bear’s stories and comments shared a general drift. They advised against fearing all of creation. But not because it is always benign, for it is not. It will, with certainty, co...