Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure.
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
Better a live dog than a dead prince
Like the rest of us he seeks an external savior.
Jump in the urinal and stand on your head. I'm the one that's alive. You're all dead.
If men are too blind to govern themselves, how can they be trusted to govern others?
You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity.
When do I see a photograph, when a reflection?
What is identity? he asked himself. Where does the act end? Nobody knows.
Simple Shepherd Mortuary
No rational response was possible. Her irrationality made it so. The terrible power, he thought, of illogic.
Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools.
In a foolish and loud manner he had argued politics; he had been rude in his disagreeing, and only the adroit tact of his host had sufficed to save the evening. How much I have to learn, Childan thoug...
I've married before and it was no better, and if I divorce Kathy I'll marry again—because as my brainbasher puts it I can't find my identity outside the role of husband and daddy and big butter-and-eg...
I never felt like that before. Maybe it could be depression, like you get. I can understand how you suffer now when you're depressed; I always thought you liked it and I thought you could have snapped...
Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.
Does she make the heavens fall? Yes, she pulls down everything. Molinari nodded. It's a psionic talent she has... it's called being a woman.
Dio promette la vita eterna disse Eldritch. Io posso fare di meglio; posso metterla in commercio.
Cancer... the process of creation gone wild, I thought.
But the longing within him had grown even greater, the overpowering need to be alone. Locked in an empty room, entirely unwitnessed, silent and supine. Stretched out, not needing to speak, not needing...