What has having a baby got to do with getting a job at an art gallery? You’re always thinking in terms of either/or. The thing is wholeness.
Well, they bill by the minute, these lawyers, just like the cheaper whores.
We've learned to see the world in gasps.
We battled in secret, undeclared, and after a while I no longer fought back because I never won. The only defense was flight, invisibility.
We are survivors, of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something.
Walking into the crowd was like sinking into a stew - you became an ingredient, you took on a certain flavour.
Unlikely a handgun any more because it was around that time that the CorpSeCorps was confiscating those, having raised the spurious banner of civic safety and thus effectively securing a monopoly for...
Translation was never possible. Instead there was always only conquest, the influx of the language of hard nouns, the language of metal, the language of either/or, the one language that has eaten all...
Toast is me.I am toast.
To want is to have a weakness.
To want is to have a weakness. It's this weakness, whatever it is, that entices me. It's like a small crack in a wall, before now impenetrable.
To pronounce the name of the dead is to make them live again, said the ancient Egyptians: not always what one might wish.
To be rendered unconscious; to lie exposed, without shame, at the mercy of others; to be touched, incised, plundered, remade - this is what they are thinking of when they look at him, with their widen...
Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.
Time is going faster and faster; the days of the week whisk by like panties.
Though it’s hard to concentrate on the idea of a future. She’s too immersed in the present:
Those walls and bars are there for a reason,' said Crake. ' Not to keep us out, but to keep them in. Mankind needs barriers in both cases
Thinking can hurt your chances, and I intend to last
These words are yours,though you never said them,you never heard them, historybreeds death but if you killit you kill yourself.
There’s something to be said forhunger: at least it lets you know you’re still alive.