Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.
Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.
Do you know? He says. I feel I've known you for years, not ninety minutes.
Better a soulless clone... than a souled roach.
An unkind describer might refer to her face as like a party nobody’s turned up to.
A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.
Have you noticed, said John, how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?
Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.
The pollenless trees were genomed to repel bugs and birds; the stagnant air reeked of insecticide.
But it’s the feeling of love that we love, not the person.
Rootlessness, I opine, is the twenty-first century norm.You're not wrong and that's why we're in the shit we're in, mate. If you belong nowhere, why give a tinker's toss about anywhere?
My right foot hits the ground first, but my left one's gone AWOL, and I'm cartwheeling, my body mapped by local explosions of pain -- ankle, knee, elbow -- shit, my left ski's gone, whipped off, vamoo...
Das Fegen der Wandelgänge ist eine lästige Angelegenheit an diesem Nachmittag: Kaum sind die Blätter und Piniennadeln zusammengekehrt, bläst der Wind den Haufen davon. Wolken ziehen über dem Kahlen Gi...
Fire’s the sun, unwindin’ itself out o’ the wood.
When you win, the rules change, and you find you’ve lost
I consider how you don't get to choose whom you're attracted to, you only get to wonder about it retrospectively.
The truth of a myth, your Honor, is not its words but its patterns.
If poor doomed Olly’s a Radio 4 play, what am I?You, Hugo, she kisses my earlobe, are a sordid, low-budget French film. The sort you’d stumble across on TV at night. You know you’ll regret it in the m...
Human beings are walking bundles of cravings. Cravings for food, water, shelter, warmth; sex and companionship; status, a tribe to belong to; kicks, control, purpose; and so on, all the way down toe c...
This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays;...
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