Those blanked-out eternities at the airport. Getting there, waiting there, standing shoeless in long lines. Think about it. We take off our shoes and remove our metal objects and then enter a stall an...
This was worse than a retched nightmare. It was the nightmare of real things, the fallen wonder of the world
This was New York. Every living breathing genotype entered his cab at some point, day or night. And if this was an inflated notion, that was New York as well. Two
This sentiment was expressed not so much in words and actions as in terrible and articulate sounds
This must be how people escape the pull of the earth, the gravitational leaf-flutter that brings us hourly closer to dying.
This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)
This is the custom among men who have failed to be heroes; their sons must prove that the seed was not impoverished
This is all happening in the future. This future, this instant. If you can’t absorb this idea, best go home now. I
This is American two-one-three to the cockpit voice recorder. Now we know what it’s like. It is worse than we’d ever imagined. They didn’t prepare us for this at the death simulator in Denver. Our fea...
They’ve grown comfortable with their money,’ I said. ‘They genuinely believe they’re entitled to it. This conviction gives them a kind of rude health. They glow a little.
They passed out of the shade beneath the eaves and flew into sunglare and silence and it was an action she only partly saw, elusive and mutely beautiful, the birds so sunstruck they were consumed by l...
These things happen to poor people who live in exposed areas. Society is set up in such a way that it’s the poor and the uneducated who suffer the main impact of natural and man-made disasters. People
These are the soporifics of normalcy, my days in middling drift.
There’s a neat correlation between the complexity of the hardware and the lack of genuine attachments. Devices make everyone pliant. There’s a general sponginess, a lack of conviction.
There's less and less for people to talk to when they talk to me. I hope diminishing existence isn't contagious.
There were times when he felt the lure of a submoronic mode of being.
There was something about a long and low and open-space house with a lawn and a carport that made her feel spiritually afraid.
There was religion, then there was God. Lianne wanted to disbelieve. Disbelief was the line of travel that led to clarity of thought and purpose. Or was this simply another form of superstition? She w...
There was an aluminum awning over the office door. On the door itself were little plastic letters arranged in slots to spell out a message. The message was: NU MISH BOOT ZUP KO. Gibberish but high-qua...
There must be a type of weariness that seems a blessing of the earth.