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...
Anti-cat is one jump away from anti-Semitism.
And who am I? The wrong person; I can tell you that.
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.
What we really need is a doctor, not a spear.
What a tragic realm this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don't know it; they think they are free because they have never been free, and do not un...
We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine.
They know a million tricks, those novelists.
The Tao is that which first lets the light, then the dark. Occasions the interplay of the two primal forces so that there is always renewal. It is that which keeps it all from wearing down. The univer...
Once, in a cheap science fiction novel, Fat had come across a perfect description of the Black Iron Prison, but set in the far future. So if you superimposed the past (ancient Rome) over the present (...
On one hand she seems so agile, so athletic, and yet I've seen her appear so awkward that it embarrassed me. She gives the impression of a hard, worldly adroitness, and in some situations she's like a...
Office gossip annoyed him because it always proved better than the truth.
Mors certa, vita incerta, as Mr. Sloat occasionally declared. Isidore, although he had heard the expression a number of times, retained only a dim notion as to its meaning. After all, if a chickenhead...
Love is another name for sex.
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 am Ubik. Before the universe was, I am. I made the suns. I made the worlds. I created the lives and the places they inhabit; I move them here, I put them there. They go as I say, then do as I tell t...
How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish.