Oh, God, I said. Thank you so very much for the mental image of Dad as a teenage sack of hormones. That’s the sort of image that takes therapy to get rid of.
Jack Holloway told me he would get the son of a bitch who killed my child and the mate of my child, Papa continued. Jack Holloway did get that son of a bitch. Jack Holloway got you. You are the man wh...
It’s not whether she tells everyone, Huma said. It’s whether they believe her. It’s the truth. Oh, my daughter, Huma said, and smiled. Don’t tell me you don’t know how little that actually means.
The good news is I peed before going to sleep.
The diagnostic said there was nothing wrong with the threep, which may have meant there was something wrong with the diagnostic.
The cynical could afford the luxury of their cynicism because of the stability of the system they mocked.
I can't believe you just quoted a Steve Miller tune to the leader of an alien race, Van Doren, standing next to me, muttered under his breath.Shut up, I muttered back. It worked.
Creativity eventually comes from the need not to have ourselves or other people eaten by leopards.
The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat
The reality is more complicated, but as with most humans, the people on Earth prefer the simple answer.
I'll say it: I want to see an ugly woman as a spokeswoman for a women's network. Ugly men are out there all the time – look at Larry King, for God's sake. He looks like someone's talking underwear. Wh...
God damn it, Thomas said as he sat down at the table, carrying a tray so piled with food that it was a miracle he could even lift it. Aren't we all just too good-looking for words.
You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.
To everyone who thinks writing a sequel should be easy because you've already clreated the universe: Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha! Heh. No.
This brings me back to my question about my karma, Wilson said. You probably set kittens on fire, Schmidt said. And the rest of us were probably there with you, with skewers.
I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.
I said ‘not so much,’ Dr. Russell said. Not so much as what? Having your head stepped on by an elephant? Not so much as when the sensors connect to each other, Dr. Russell said. The good news is that...
I hate that I’ve become one of those old men who visits a cemetery to be with his dead wife. When I was (much) younger I used to ask Kathy what the point would be. A pile of rotting meat and bones tha...
Filled with existential ennui about your place in the universe? Get over yourself. Yes, you're an inconsequential worm in the grand scope of history. But you're an inconsequential worm who makes shit...
We don’t get to choose our battles.