The blue jay threads a flight-path through stripes of brightness and stripes of mossy dark.
The body is the outermost layer of the mind.
The brigadier I knew has left his bombed-out face, leaving me alone with the clock, shelves of handsome books nobody ever reads, and one certainty: that whatever I do with my life, however much power,...
Time is the speed at which the past decays, but disneys enable a brief resurrection.
The colorblind get by just fine not knowing blue from purple.
Flamelight danced with shadows round them unloved walls.
Today's the day I either change my life or I don't.
The days when I had that kind of spondulics at my beck and call are gone, gone, gone! Our house is mortgaged, twice over!
The dissolution and sale of British Rail, transforming it into a disjointed network charging exorbitant prices for an unimproved and still taxpayer-subsidised service, darkened the joke a bit much for...
These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.
The dust was deep and crisp and even.
The empowered may serve justice, remodel the Earth, transform lush nations into smoking battlefields, and bring down skyscrapers, but power itself is amoral.
The glances musicians exchange, when music is effortless, that was what he wanted from Milly, that intimacy.
The greats? Well, they all share that quality Napoleon most admired in his generals: luck. Be in Kabul when it falls. Be in Manhattan on 9/11. Be in Paris the night Diana’s driver makes his fatal misj...
The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken.
To enslave an individual troubles your consciences, Archivist, but to enslave a clone is no more troubling than owning the latest six-wheeler ford, ethically. Because you cannot discern our difference...
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature.
The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed
The impossible is negotiable. What is possible is malleable.
The last of the cherry blossom. On the tree, itturns ever more perfect. And when it’s perfect, it falls. And then of course once it hits the
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