I suppose the whole thing was highly irregular from a legal point of view, but it was great fun. And nobody was having more fun than the judge. It wasn’t a real trial, you see, so he didn’t have to wo...
I could see the reporter scribbling away as if his life depended on it. I suppose for him it was the scoop of a lifetime. Here he’d probably been sitting around for months doing the Kibbencook courtho...
Finally, you’ll tell the truth. I’ve read so many lies about the project I can hardly stand it. If this book can set the record straight—well, you’ll be doing us a service. And I hope you won’t mind i...
Finally she spoke.We don’t have much time. She paused, looking at him steadily. I need to tell you something, Tom. What? It seems I’ve fallen in love with you. Reality returned with sudden clarity. To...
But I also know this anomaly is something you won’t let drop until you get to the bottom of it.
The shudder of fear is as sensual as the shudder of pleasure, if not more so.
The guilt and suffering of Judas Escariot. I do not believe, however, that the congregation took to it. I asked the question: Was Judas chosen for the deed? It was prophesied, was it not? Where, then,...
The Mosquitia civilization vanished everywhere all at once—in a sudden, civilization-wide catastrophe.
Specimens, wait until they’ve been examined, then put them back. Bone librarian—a most apt description. How many visiting scientists
Sometimes she didn’t know her own strength, and she didn’t understand that people were a lot more fragile than she was. Sometimes she was rougher than she intended, you see. Did you know that a full-g...
On for the rest of my life. That evening, Virgilio joined us at dinner. I asked him about the clear-cutting that checkerboarded the jungle we had flown over. He was shocked and concerned by what he’d...
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Chip, a credit card, a small hypodermic needle and syringe, some duct tape, and a tiny capsule of brown liquid. Pocketing the items, he exited the bathroom and darted down the hall to guard station 7....
Because it's not enough to have a dream—you need financing.
At least the higher animals have souls, and they are inevitably saved. Only man, who has the capacity for good and evil, can be damned.
You, he began. You bastards. Silence. Where was the FBI these past four days? This was your fault—your fault! His voice, starting out in a whisper, crescendoed by the end into a roar, spittle flecking...
You just put your boot so far up his ass, he’ll have to eat his dinner with a shoehorn. I can always count on you for a suitable bon mot.
While the utterances remained mostly one to three words, the facial expressions and body language became more and more sophisticated. You see, the problem is that this result was very difficult to qua...
When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
What was that line of Sophocles from Oedipus Rex? How awful a knowledge of the truth can be.