If the manifest of ingredients on the bottle had been legible, it would have read something like this: Water, blackstrap molasses, imported habanero peppers, salt, garlic, ginger, tomato puree, axle g...
If no one is barfing, then none of us is likely to die, at least over a time span of weeks.
If it’s wearing red, yellow, or both, it’s a lama, he said. Bow to it. Isn’t that a camel from South America?
If Admiral Tourville’s invasion-fleet makes it across the Channel without being sunk by the Royal Navy, and if the Papist legion establishes a beachhead on English soil without being destroyed by the...
I feared he might be trying to grow a beard again.
I don’t hold it against you that you turned out Irish, either. I wasn’t there to make Englishmen of you, and so it’s Irish you are, by default.
I don’t even know how to describe it. ‘Ragtag’ makes it sound like more than it is.
I don't get this, Hiro says. What is Snow Crash?It's a drug, asshole, the guy says. What do you think?
I can’t predict the future, I said, but based on what little I know so far, I’m afraid it has to be a massive adventure or nothing. Great! Probably the kind of adventure that ends in a mass burial. Th...
I apologize if my limbic system has misinterpreted your gesture of emotional support.
He finds an open boulevard of water that leads inward to the Core. It has asort of pedestrian catwalk running along one side of it, pieced togetherhaphazardly, a seemingly endless procession of gangpl...
He arouses violent controversy among a loose flock of chickens that is straggling across his path, none of whom can seem to figure out how to get out of his way; they’re scared of him, but not mentall...
Grammar is like the walls and bumpers of a pinball machine. Rhetoric is like the flippers of a pinball machine. You control the flippers. The rest of the machine—grammar—controls everything else. If y...
Got what? Pete Starling asked, over the video link. Am I missing something? No, Dinah said. We are just proceeding adaptively to leverage our core competencies.
Got himself fired for pulling a sword on an acknowledged perp. Slid it right through the fabric of the perp’s shirt, gliding the flat of the blade along the base of his neck, and pinned him to a warpe...
Getting through the intersection involves tracing paths through the parking system, many braided filaments of direction like the Ho Chi Minh trail.
Generally you pick the unoccupied workstation that's closest to the door. That way, whoever came in earliest sits closest, whoever came in latest is way in the back, for the rest of the day it's obvio...
Every parent of a teenager gets used to it: the moment in a child’s life when he or she decides that certain facts are just too much trouble to explain to Mom or Dad.
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
Einstein followed her as if his eyes were connected to her butt cheeks with fishhooks.