If Tombstone is shut down and grabbed by the cops before Randy can erase those traces, they will know he has logged on at the very moment that Tombstone was confiscated, and will put him in prison for...
I always tend to assume there’s an infinite amount of money out there. There might as well be, Arsibalt said, but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water, and bombs. There is only so much th...
Every culture can be kind of defined by what they drink in order to avoid dying of diarrhea. In China it’s tea. In Africa it’s milk or animal blood. In Europe it was wine and beer.
Do you reject the glamor of Evil, and refuse to be mastered by it?
Conflict, acted out openly and publicly, was a male mode of social interaction—the foundation for patriarchal society which brought with it the usual litany of dreadful things. Regardless, Randy decid...
But what little I’d heard had left me amazed by how clever people were at finding ways to make each other crazy and miserable.
Being right does not always bring satisfaction,
A man is talking on the phone in Cantonese, which means that he is, in fact, shouting.
But the great thing about traveling with Pluto was that he only cared about you to the extent that you were interesting to him now. In that way he kept you on your toes. No aspect of the relationship...
You should be a billionaire, Randy. Thank god you're not.Why do you say that?Oh, because then you'd be a highly intelligent man who never has to make difficult choices - who never has to exert his min...
You heard of Mary Jane? Root asks. Shaftoe—role model, leader of men—stifles the impulse to say, Heard of her? I’ve fucked her!
War did not just level, it plowed the field, raising the muck and sinking the stubble.
Until he reached thirty, Randy felt bad about the fact that he was not socially deft. Now he doesn’t give a damn. Pretty soon he’ll probably start being proud of it.
To the extent that Blue had a definable culture, it tended to view technological aids with some ambivalence, a state of mind boiled down into the aphorism Each enhancement is an amputation. This was n...
This is why he hates business. He wants to tell everyone everything. He wants to make friends with people.
The last ship home has sailed. From now on, launch vehicles will rise up into orbit, but they will not go back for ten thousand years.
The human race might be about to disappear, but not before putting on a two-year frenzy of recreational sex.
The first woman who spent any amount of time aboard this ship was Elizabeth de Obregon, whom we salvaged from the wrack of the Manila Galleon at the same time as him who burned it, one Edouard de Gex....
The difference between stupid and intelligent people -- and this is true whether or not they are well-educated -- is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambigous or ev...
The belief in the magical power of language is not unusual, both in mysticaland academic literature. The Kabbalists -- Jewish mystics of Spain andPalestine -- believed that super-normal insight and po...