The leafless trees, with their black branches stretched hysterically in every direction, looked to him like illustrations of a central nervous system racked by disease: studies of human suffering anat...
If anything should take place behind closed doors, it was cruelty and betrayal.
In the Dodge City of romantic love, crowded with betrayal, abandonment and rejection, it was better to fire first than to take the risk of being gunned down.
We are entering the Dark Ages, my friend, but this time there will be lots of neon, and screen savers, and street lighting.
Is there ever anything to get worried about,' Peter couldn't help asking, 'when there are so many things to worry about duly?
An image flashed across her mind of two rams flinging their heads against each other on a rocky mountainside. What did the girl rams do? Faint with pleasure? Clap their cloven hooves? Lean against som...
Were the ironies of taxation any better: raising money for schools and hospitals and roads and bridges, and spending it on blowing up schools and hospitals and roads and bridges in self-defeating wars...
In England, art was much less likely to be mentioned in polite society than sexual perversions or methods of torture.
Once he had taken heroin he could imagine being without it;
The shock of standing again under the wide pale sky, completely exposed. This must be what the oyster feels when the lemon juice falls.
I'll let you in on a little secret, Garry: everything is history. By the time you notice it, it's already happened. That famous imposter, the present, disappears in the cognitive gap. Mind the gap!
His conscience, like a sunburnt scorpion, was stinging itself to death.
Observe Everything. Always think for yourself. Never let other people make important decisions for you.
How could he think his way out of the problem when the problem was the way he thought...
Words are our slaves: they may be used to fetch a pair of slippers, or to build the great pyramid of Giza: they depend on syntax to make the order of the world manifest, to raise stones into arches an...
A face like a crème brûlée after the first blow of the spoon,
Personally I think that competition should be encouraged in war and sport and business, but that it makes no sense in the arts. If an artist is good, nobody else can do what he or she does and therefo...
Forced to observe the fringes of unconsciousness and make darkness visible;
This time he was going to fall apart silently.
Why was he in this state? Or perhaps the question was why had he not always been in this state? Why had he not always found life so disturbing and so poignant?
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