A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty...
I thought, I am in this world, but no longer of this world.
Ethical cyberexplorers are responsible, yeah? We are friendly ghosts in the machine, not poltergeists or hooligans. We are a growing breed. Over sixty-five percent of top-flight systems explorers are...
Me and Vinny are dead careful, and we only had sex once without a condom, our first time, and it's a scientific fact that virgins can't get pregnant. Stella told me.
—Bueno —tanteó Hae-Joo—, ¿qué haces para relajarte?—Jugar al go con el sony —dije.—¿Para relajarte? —replicó incrédulo—. ¿Y quién gana, tú o el sony?—El sony —respondí—. ¿Cómo si no iba a mejorar?—O s...
Черт возьми, когда твои родители умирают, они переселяются в тебя.
È un ciclo antico come il tribalismo. In principio, c'è l'ignoranza. L'ignoranza genera paura. La paura genera odio, e l'odio genera violenza. La violenza crea altra violenza, finché l'unica legge div...
¿La felicidad significa ausencia de privaciones? Si es así, entonces los sirvientes, tal y como los purasangres gustan de creer, son el estrato más feliz de toda la Corpocracia. Pero si la felicidad s...
You are the man. You have to take your dignity and self respect to the pawnbrokers.
Words are very powerful and can lead anyone reading them or hearing them, into contemplation and insight. How the mind follows suit is rarely palpable or expected. This impact is not a matter of metap...
Who wins, you or the sony? The sony, I answered, or how would I ever improve? So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?
While much of her true name lay beyond my knowledge of the Noongar language, as the minutes passed I understood that her name was also a history of her people, a sort of Bayeux Tapestry that bound myt...
When shaving, thinks Jacob, a man rereads his truest memoir.
When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window. Insist on hotel rooms no higher.
We were, to quote the proverb, The one dog who barks at nothing answered by a thousand dogs barking at something...
We din't speak much from then 'cos speakin' can be heard by spyers what you can't spy.
We all think we're in control of our own lives, but really they're pre-ghostwritten by forces around us.
Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.
Too cowardly to be a warrior, but not enough of a coward to lie down and roll over like a good doggy.
Tokyo is a model of that serial big-bang theory of the universe. It explodes at five P.M. and people matter is hurled to the suburbs, but by 5 A.M. the people-matter gravity reasserts itself, and ever...