What the hell kind of bed you giving us, anyways? We don't want no pants rabbits.
We sat on a crate of oranges and thought what good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world--temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Once in a while one comes o...
Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one.
Un delitto così abietto che trascende la comprensione. Una piaga che nessun pianto potrebbe descrivere. Un fallimento che annienta ogni nostro successo. La terra è feconda i fiori sono ordinati, i tro...
To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is...
They walked side by side along the dark beach toward Monterey, where the lights hung, necklace above necklace against the hill. The sand dunes crouched along the back of the beach like tired hounds, r...
They think that just because they have only one leader and one head, we are all like that. They know that ten heads lopped off will destroy them, but we are a free people; we have as many heads as we...
There's a capacity for apetite, Samuel said, that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy
There is a great deal to be seen in the tilt of a hat on a man.
There are people who will say that this whole account is a lie, but a thing isn't necessarily a lie even if it didn't necessarily happen.
The tractors came over the roads and into the fields, great crawlers moving like insects, having the incredible strength of insects … Snub-nosed monsters, raising the dust and sticking their snouts in...
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 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...
Some day, his mind said, that boy would know what things were in the books and what things were not.
Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself.
She was a very small girl with a face as lovely and fresh as her son’s face—a very small girl. Most of the time she knew she was smarter and prettier than anyone else. But now and then a lonely fear w...
She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do.
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...