Find it on the map, you can always get to it. Try to follow someone’s half-assed directions, and once you lose the trail, you’re sunk.
Fearless for oneself, fear for others—that must be what it means to be a hero.
Even though we didn’t say anything, we were in dialog: a peregrin dialog, meaning two equals wandering around trying to work something out, as opposed to a suvinian dialog where a fid is being taught...
Empty boxes, old newspapers, a milk jug, and a wine bottle. You’re identifying the contents of the garbage bag? No dead cats. Or live ones. Maybe it’s a Schrödinger’s Hefty bag. I
Emotional intensity doesn't convey the half of it, of course. It is the kind of coarse and disappointing translation that makes the dismembered bodies of samurai warriors spin in their graves. The wor...
Do you reject the glamor of Evil, and refuse to be mastered by it?
Daniel saw in a way he’d never seen anything before: his mind was a homunculus squatting in the middle of his skull, peering out through good but imperfect telescopes and listening horns, gathering ob...
CosaNostra Pizza doesn't have any competition. Competition goes against the Mafia ethic.
Clyde had a theory that women had a book, a homemade, photocopied three-ring binder called Surprising Things to Do in a Relationship, which they passed around to one another, adding pages from time to...
Clearly Mr. Drkh has had a long career of being the weirdest person in any given room, but he's about to go down in flames.
Cambridge was run by a mixture of fogeys too old to be considered dangerous, and Puritans who had been packed into the place by Cromwell after he’d purged all the people he did consider dangerous. Wit...
But when I tried to meet her eye now, she pointedly looked away, and fixed her red and swollen eyes on the big stained-glass window above the slate. Since (a) it was dark outside and (b) the window de...
But what you learn, as you get older, is that there are a few billion other people in the world all trying to be clever at the same time, and whatever you do with your life will certainly be lost—swal...
But unbidden and unwanted thoughts are the hardest to expel from one’s mind.
But this is how history is done now. People wait until they have a need for some history and then they customize it to suit their purposes.
But the rest of our lives will happen in the future, Randy, so we might as well get with the program now.
But at last I came to understand that I was making it too complicated. For you, this is no mingling at all; for you the Book of Revelation, the ramblings of Hermes Trismegistus, and Principia Mathemat...
But Jack was not Polish scum of the earth, barefoot and chained to the land, or even French scum of the earth, in wooden clogs and in thrall to the priest and the tax-farmer, but English scum of the e...
But I have to warn you that this is the word—‘politics’—that nerds use whenever they feel impatient about the human realities of an organization.
Bulgarian professor named John Vincent Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, who were building a machine that was intended to automate the solution of some especially tedious differentia...