Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.''Will you be all right?''I'll be all right,' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too.
Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because, ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and vict...
Cancer... the process of creation gone wild, I thought.
Another fantasy film rolled suddenly into his head, without his consent:
A brand-new tape recorder, completely worn out. Bought with funny money that the store is willing to accept. Worthless money, worthless article purchased; it has a sort of logic to it.
When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific.
What is identity? he asked himself. Where does the act end? Nobody knows.
Well, that's marriage these days. Legalized hate.
The next thing he knew, a creature from between dimensions was standing beside his bed looking down at him disapprovingly.The creature had many eyes, all over it, ultra-modern expensive-looking clothi...
The human being has an unfortunate tendency to wish to please.
Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how.
She’ll probably want to, once I show her how; as near as I can make out, most women, even young ones like her, like to cook: it’s an instinct.
Metal is from the earth, he thought as he scrutinized. From below: from that realm which is the lowest, the most dense. Land of trolls and caves, dank, always dark. Yin world, in its most melancholy a...
Men and the world are mutually toxic to each other.
I didn't choose to get entangled in my domestic life, my boxer's clinch with Kathy. And if you think I did or do, it's because you're morbidly young. You've failed to pass from adolescent freedom into...
I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let him know. After all, if you are a Buddha you should be able to figure it out for yourself...
Each of us assumes everyone else knows what HE is doing. They all assume we know what WE are doing. We don't...Nothing is going on and nobody knows what it is. Nobody is concealing anything except the...
But we cannot do it all at once; it is a sequence. An unfolding process. We can only control the end by making a choice at each step. He
What you should do, she told Fat during one of his darker hours, is get into studying the characteristics of the T-34. Fat asked what that was. It turned out that Sherri had read a book on Russion arm...
Upon him the contempt of three planets descended.