We developed differently, of course, but we all had the same problem. The yawning hole in the center of our badly designed lives. How can you love yourself if you can’t love somebody else?
Sadeq, being human, has fantasies by the dozen, but he doesn’t dare permit himself to succumb to temptation. I’m not dead, he reasons; therefore, how can I be in Paradise? Therefore, this must be a fa...
Like the bad guy said, never give an artist a Browning; they’re some of the most dangerous folks you can meet… Artists almost always want an audience, the spectacle of destruction. That name — Dadaist...
It’s almost as if Congress has no idea that a giant occult power struggle for control of the US government is in progress … or perhaps it’s over already, and a ruthless media clamp-down by tongue-eati...
It’s a bit like cricket, Pete agrees. Weeks of endless boredom interspersed with the occasional moment of existential terror.
It seems I have not been truly myself for a long time, he says, barely whispering, a dry, papery sound like files shuffling in a dead document archive.
I wasn’t expecting a stealth, supersonic, vertical take-off submarine fueled by the eerily whistling ghosts of necromantically murdered dolphins.
I know just how devoted to this organisation you are. Draftees back in my day used to understand what they’d got themselves into, but you young ones . . . ‘Ask not what you can do for your country, bu...
I am me and I have been Juliette and both of us have dreamed this dream repeatedly. And what makes this dream so unfortunate is that it is a true thing that happened to someone else ... who is both of...
Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.
Cat. No doubled vision: it’s a cat, singular. A solitary diurnal ambush hunter with good hearing and binocular vision and a predilection for biting the neck of its prey in half while disemboweling it...
Being management means having to hold your hands behind your back while your inexperienced junior staff crap all over a job you could have done in five seconds—and then taking their mess right on the...
There is a point at which eccentricity begins to impact operational effectiveness.
What entity aboard this ship exhibits all the personality traits of a cold-blooded killing machine, combined with the monstrous, overweening vanity and laziness of a convalescent war god lounging in t...
There will be plenty of backup and support, but she’s still going to have to do heartbreaking things to people who probably don’t understand why the pale woman with the bone-white violin and blood dri...
The widespread belief among some politicians that government can’t do anything right—that the private sector is always better—becomes a corrosive, self-fulfilling prophecy. Government isn’t allowed to...
That’s all right, pay no attention to me, just make yourself at home, I tell the self-propelled whoopee cushion, then audit the itemized receipt with a sinking heart. Judging from the bottom line, cat...
Some knowledge is inherently corrupting,
Mulle tundub, et astronoomide seas on mingi seltskond suisa solvunud, et need, kes selle ketta ehitasid ja meid siia tõid, ei maandunud Valge Maja ette murule ega tutvustanud ennast.
I’m going flat out at maybe a hundred and fifty kilometers per hour on the autobahn while some joker is shooting at me from behind with a cannon that fires Porsches and Mercedes.