To seek out the upright. No fall butpreceded by a declination. He took great marching steps into the nothingness,counting them against his return. Eyes closed, arms oaring. Upright to what?Something n...
To make the world. To make it again and again. To make it in the very maelstrom of its undoing.
They have a long life, dreams. I have dreams now which I had as a young girl. They have an odd durability for something not quite real.Do you think they mean anything?She looked surprised. Oh yes, she...
Then don't. I can't help you. They say that women dream of danger to those in their care and men of danger to themselves. But I don't dream at all. You say you can't? Then don't do it. That's all. Bec...
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
No todo el mundo necesita tener una razón para ir a alguna parte.
Lying under such a myriad of stars. The sea’s black horizon. He rose and walked out and stood barefoot in the sand and watched the pale surf appear all down the shore and roll and crash and darken aga...
John Grady looked at the table. The paper cat stepped thin and slant among the shapes of cats thereon. He looked up again. Yessir, he said. Just me and him.
It just sounds like superstition to me.And what is that?Superstition?Yes.Well. I guess it's when you believe in things that dont exist.Such as tomorrow? Or yesterday?Such as the dreams of somebody you...
In their images they had thought to find some small immortality but oblivion cannot be appeased.
Ich kann nicht anders.
He had no faith in the power of men to act wisely in their own behalf. It was his view rather that every act soon eluded the grasp of its propagator to be swept away in a clamorous tide of unforeseen...
Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether these random events are only called a pattern after the fact. Because otherwise we...
Life is a memory, then it is nothing. All law is writ in a seed.
It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. ... War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awa...
My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold and anything else is just a waste of time.
Where in this pukehole can a man get a drink? he said
There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.
People were always getting ready for tomorrow.
People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they dont deserve but they seldom mention the good.