I managed to smile, thinking how Modesty is Vanity’s craftier stepbrother.
I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards the...
How gleefully life shreds our well crafted plans.
Holly rubs her temples. Are we talking ... vampires?Arkady groans. On, the V-word! Here it comes again.
Every nowhere is somewhere[...]
Earlier, I stepped on a squid that had propelled itself over the bulwarks! (Its eyes & beak reminded me of my father-in-law.)
Can I just ask for an outline –Doesn’t work like that. You need a leap of faith to leave your old life behind. True metamorphosis doesn’t come with flowcharts.
When a man aspires to power, I ask one simple question:Does he think like a businessman?'Luisa rolls her napkin into a compact ball. 'I ask tree simple questions. How did he get that power? How is he...
Power is lost or won, never created or destroyed. Power is a visitor to, not a possession of, those it empowers. The mad tend to crave it, many of the sane crave it, but the wise worry about its long-...
After ten pages I felt that Nietzsche was reading me, not I him.
I watched the stars and thought of other lives.
I've never listened to music lying down. Listening's reading if you close your eyes.Music's a wood you walk through.
Facet of existence that only a few hundred in history have glimpsed, but so what? I could hardly tell
Come now, what's a reviewer? I reasoned. One who reads quickly, arrogantly, but never wisely...
What happens to all the seconds tipped into the bin of the past?
Travel far enough, you meet yourself.
The truth of a myth, Your Honor, is not its words but its patterns. Shiroyama
Still dark. The Alpine hush is miles deep. The skylight over Holly’s bed is covered with snow, but now that the blizzard’s stopped I’m guessing the stars are out. I’d like to buy her a telescope. Coul...
Soviet imperialism’s as bad as American capitalism.
Sex may be the antidote to death but it offers life everlasting only to the species, not the individual.