Here is my objection to submarines and space travel: not enough windows. What difference does it make if you're in outer space or underwater, or wherever, if you can't feel, or hear, or see or smell i...
When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.
When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book. Both
We need a sort of reverse mirror test. Some way to identify those species smart enough to see themselves when they look at someone else. Bonus points for how far out the chain you can go. Double bonus...
We all have a sense of level. It may not be based on class exactly anymore, but we still have a sense of what we're entitled to. People pick partners who are nearly their equal in looks. The pretty ma...
The monkey girl had made another unscheduled appearance, and it had landed her in jail again. When would she learn to behave with restraint and decorum?
Svatko misli o tom kako promijeniti svijet, ali nitko ne misli kako promijeniti sebe.
Poor Elinor! Willoughby on one side, Brandon on the other. She is quite entre deux feux. Prudie had a bit of lipstick on her teeth, or else it was wine. Jocelyn wanted to lean across and wipe it off w...
Maybe friendship was not as big a deal as I’d thought and I actually had lots of friends.
Language is such an imprecise vehicle I sometimes wonder why we bother with it.
I made tiny newspapers of ant events, stamp-sized papers at first, then a bit bigger, too big for ants, it distressed me, but I couldn’t fit the stories otherwise and I wanted real stories, not just l...
Dean coughed helpfully. Somewhere in the cough was the word persuasion. He was throwing Mo a lifeline.Mo preferred to go down. I haven’t actually read any Austen. I’m more into mysteries, crime fictio...
Besides, it was a high bed. The dogs could never have gotten into it without help. Maybe one could have stood with its front paws on the bed frame while the other scaled its back in some unlikely dach...
At five of five, I called the airline number—800-FUCK-YOU—and was told I had to speak directly to lost luggage at the Sacramento Airport. No one answered in Sacramento, though my call was important to...
You can train any animal into any behavior on cue if it’s a natural behavior to begin with. Racism, sexism, speciesism—all natural human behaviors. They can be triggered any time by any unscrupulous y...
When a portent repeats itself three times, like something out of Julius Caesar, even Caliban, a couple of plays over, is bound to notice.
What should we read next? Bernadette asked. Pride and Prejudice is my favorite.So let’s do that, Sylvia said.Are you sure, dear? Jocelyn asked,I am. It’s time. Anyway, Persuasion has the dead mother....
SO NOW IT’S 1979. Year of the Goat. The Earth Goat. Here are some things you might remember. Margaret Thatcher had just been elected prime minister. Idi Amin had fled Uganda. Jimmy Carter would soon b...
In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.'
But where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail. .