Random, and yet rooted in the moment in which he lived, in which his life was bound up with all other lives and particles in the universe.
Philosophical involvement blinded me to authentic human fact.
Oracle, why did you write The Grasshopper Lies Heavy? What are we supposed to learn?
One of the most effective forms of industrial or military sabotage limits itself to damage that can never be thoroughly proven - or even proven at all - to be anything deliberate. It is like an invisi...
My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression,
Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.
It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity.
I resemble that worm which crawls through dust,Lives in the dust, eats dustUntil a passerby's foot crushes it.
Fish cannot carry guns.
Every junkie, he thought, is a recording.
#36:...Something has happened to our intelligence. My reasoning is this: arrangements of part of the Brain is a language. We are parts of the Brain; therefore, we are language. Why, then, do we not kn...
The thing about rabbits, sir, is that everybody has one. I'd like to see you step up to the goat-class where I feel you belong. Frankly you look more like a goat man to me.
There was once only the dust particles in space, the hot hydrogen gases, nothing more, and it will come again. This is an interval, ein Augenblick. The cosmic process is hurrying on, crushing life bac...
Terms of those who loved her. She paid back their love with—well, with what? Malice? Not proven. Hate? Not proven. With the irrational? Yes; proven. In terms of the effect on her friends—such as Fat—n...
Be free of her sinus headaches which have caused her not to appear before us on TV lately, and that those headaches not have anything
You stupid bastard, does what you’re fighting for look so real now? Skin pigment. What a laugh! Why not eye color? Too bad nobody ever thought of that. It cuts it a little finer, but basically it’s th...
Why does a man cry? he wondered. Not like a woman; not for that. Not for sentiment. A man cries over the loss of something, something alive. A man can cry over a sick animal that he knows won't make i...
Who threw the stone at me? he asked himself. No one. But why does it bother me? I’ve undergone it before, during fusion. While using my empathy box, like everyone else. This isn’t new. But it was. Bec...
Ti chiami Patty per caso? le chiese Barris, facendo segno a Charles Freck che tutto era sotto controllo.No. Indicò il nome scritto sul distintivo appuntato sulla tetta destra. Beth.Mi chiedo come si c...
This guy—Joe whatever—hasn’t even got the right expression on his face; he should have that cold but somehow enthusiastic look, as if he believed in nothing and yet somehow had absolute faith.