The tide goes out imperceptibly. The boulders show and seem to rise up and the ocean recedes leaving little pools, leaving wet weed and moss and sponge, iridescence and brown and blue and China red. O...
The fool supply was controlled...
The flies have conquered the flypaper.
The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in the path or the breath caught at sight of a pretty girl or a fingernail...
The clouds appeared and went away, and in a while they did not try anymore.
The Word is symbol of delight which sucks up men and scenes, trees, plants, factories, and Pekinese. Then the Thing becomes the Word and the back to Thing again, but warped and woven into a fantastic...
Some day, his mind said, that boy would know what things were in the books and what things were not.
Seems to me you put too much stock in the affairs of children. It probably didn’t meananything.Yes, it meant something. Then he said, Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts ofpeople suddenly become impo...
Puts a weight on ya. Goin' out lookin' for somepin you know you ain't gonna find.
Porque se dice que los humanos no se satisfacen jamás, que se les da una cosa y siempre quieren algo más. Y se dice esto con erróneo desprecio, ya que es una de las mayores virtudes que tiene la espec...
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
Once Ed said to me, For a very long time I didn't like myself. It was not said in self-pity but simply as an unfortunate fact. It was a very difficult time, he said, and very painful. I did not like m...
My wife married a man; I saw no reason why she should inherit a baby...I am very fortunate in having a wife who likes being a woman, which means that she likes men, not elderly babies.
Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.
Men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them.... In the world ruled by tigers with ulcers, rutt...
Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.
Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box and so took my shape. Then, when I broke out of the box, the way a baby chick...
It set him free, said Lee. It gave him the right to be a man, separate from every other man.That’s lonely.All great and precious things are lonely.What is the word again?Timshel—thou mayest.
In the bathroom two water tumblers were sealed in cellophane sacks with the words: These glasses are sterilized for your protection. Across the toilet seat a strip of paper bore the message: This seat...
I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.