Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts....
Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it. Here I stand. But no longer.
Joe Chip said, ‘I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.
Jesus Christ! I said. You can't sleep with a bishop! I already have, Kirsten said.
It was the mob that swept him into office. However, it's unlikely that when more sober elements prevail they'll want to support a cripple and demagogue who depends on inflaming the mass with his lies...
It isn't a brute instinct that keeps us restless and dissatisfied. I'll tell you what it is: it's the highest goal of man - the need to grow and advance . . . to find new things . . . to expand. To sp...
It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense
His projected face bony and intense, Garth peered out of his booth like an aroused turtle.
Her voice had become sharp with overtones of bleakness as her soul congealed and she ceased to move, as the instinctive, omnipresent film of great weight, of an almost absolute inertia, settled over h...
Grief causes you to leave yourself. You step outside your narrow little pelt. And you can’t feel grief unless you’ve had love before it – grief is the final outcome of love, because it’s love lost. Yo...
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.
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.
Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.
Worse still, he had failed to pass the minimum mental faculties test, which made him in popular parlance a chickenhead.
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...
There's nothing worse than a perceptive universe if there's something weird about you.
There is no Pris, he said. Only Rachael Rosen, over and over again.
That is a logic which Freud attacks, by the way, the two-proposition self-cancelling structure. Freud considered this structure a revelation of rationalization. Someone is accused of stealing a horse,...
That goat, Rachael said. You love the goat more than me. More than you love your wife, probably. First the goat, then your wife, then last of all— She laughed merrily. What can you do but laugh?
Stuart said, I hid once in the sidewalk. Do I have to do that again? He looked around at the rest of them, seeking an answer. Yes, Bonny said. Then I will, he said. But I came up out of the sidewalk;...