Was it an hour, or a week before the light of the moon rose in the interior of my body? A bird with luminous wings flew in front of that full moon, and its head was as radiant as a point of light. Tha...
Then the Warden said, Do you have anything you’d like to say? and Gary looked up at the ceiling and hesitated, then said, Let’s do it. That was it. The most pronounced amount of courage, Vern decided,...
The book was sloppily written in many parts (the words came too quickly and too easily) and there was hardly a noun in any sentence that was not holding hands with the nearest and most commonly availa...
No, just as Marlon Brando seemed to inhabit a role as though it were a natural extension of his mood, so Ali treated boxing.
Love was here today and left us dry did we deserve Him?
His nerves were more keyed than he had realized. Quit the bitching and let's go, he heard himself piping. He was damn tired of them, he realized suddenly. That sonofabitch, one of them muttered. It sh...
His deepest detestation was often reserved for the nicest of liberal academics, as if their lives were his own life but a step escaped. Like the scent of the void which comes off the pages of a Xerox...
Gary Mark Gilmore: Go down on me, partner... I need itNicole Baker: Don't call me partner.Gary Mark Gilmore: No, darlin'... I love it... I love itNicole Baker: Yeah, you and seven other motherfuckers.
Freaks can be a fount of information.
Characters in novels sometimes radiate more energy, therefore, when we don’t enter their mind. It is one of the techniques a novelist acquires instinctively—don’t go into your protagonist’s thoughts u...
Brenda was six when she fell out of the apple tree.
Angels often flee from people who scream too loudly—they know at such moments how close the man or woman is to us, and they feel outnumbered. For devils rush in to attend such outcries.
A fire had begun to spread in me. It was burning now in my stomach and my lungs were dry as old leaves, my heart had a herded pressure which gave promise to explode.
The moments like these, the passing doubts, were the temptations that caught you if you were not careful.
Sometimes I think our future existence will depend on whether we can keep false information from proliferating too rapidly. If our power to verify the facts does not keep pace, then distortions of inf...
It is easy to comprehend people who are weaker than ourselves, but it is not as simple to be ready for the true feelings of those more powerful.
He had been given the job and he was going to do it. But now for the first time he hated it genuinely. Perhaps there had been too many fatigue-products, perhaps the cumulative labor had dissolved and...
He does see Himself as the Divine Artist. Of course, He is also a blunderer—so many of His creations are botched. A good many are disasters which He then proceeds to plow back into the food chain. Tha...
For it’s exactly when we come closest to another, that we are turned away with a lie, and blunder forward to comprehend ourselves on the misperceptions of the past.
As the Maestro is never loath to tell us, a human who suffers from too much ambition succeeds only in exemplifying the Creator’s own lack of anticipation. The D.K., wishing His Vision to be innovative...