The lightning dance of gigantic hellwhip displays, beams the size of small worlds cutting their swath across light-hours and being contorted by the riptides of defensive singularities: the aurora shim...
Shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.
Kilometers of open sea and the equator. The next land we see then is the northwest coast of Aquila, the so-called Beak. Animals. To call this conveyance a passenger dirigible is an exercise in creativ...
Even the Pyramids and other great works were as ephemeral as a castle of sand on the beach at Brighton.
A degree in psychiatry merely qualifies one to begin learning about the intricacies and foibles of the human personality.
[A less-enlightened personage once asked Ummon What is the God-nature/Buddha/Central Truth> Ummon answered him A dried shit-stick]
You’ll have to ask him in the next life, said Sol tiredly. He’s dead.
There will be no more offerings, neither child nor parent. There will be no more sacrifices. The time of obedience and atonement is past. Either help us as a friend, or go away!
The sunset was that long, achingly beautiful balance of stillness in which the sun seemed to hover like a red balloon above the western horizon, the entire sky catching fire from the death of day; a s...
The problem with being passionately in love ... is that it deprives you of too much sleep.
The critic had added a personal note: Most of us, I hope, have had some child or spouse or friend like Beatrice, someone who by his very nature, his seemingly innate goodness and intelligence, makes u...
The Consul gripped the edges of the mat with fingers gone white. He had tied the strap of his duffel bag around his belt, otherwise the bag would have tumbled off to a glacier far below.
Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality, she said, setting her cup of tea on a flat stone. The silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.
Religion and ethics were not always - or even frequently - mutually compatible. The demands of religious absolutism or fundamentalism or rampaging relativism often deflected the worst aspects of conte...
Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion,
Philosophical poetry by moonlight was all right, but guns that shot straight and true were a necessity.
People scream and run for coyer.
No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create,
More climbers die during the descent than on the way up.Karakaredes seems to be considering this. After a minute he says, Yes, but here on the summit, there must be some ritual . . .Hero photos, gasps...
Johnny-boy shook his head. Maybe he thought I wanted him to drink from the bottle. Hell, I have more class than that. There are paper cups over by the water cooler.