No one, it appeared to Barney, had anything to do now; the weight of empty time hung over them all.
Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.
It is proper that technically qualified non-lunatics should sit in judgement on lunatics. How could things be otherwise?
I lifted you from the tomb world just now and I will continue to lift you until you lose interest and want to quit. But you will have to stop searching for me because I will never stop searching for y...
Frankly, you look more like a goat man to me.
Even weird breed of cat like Nazi Germany comprehensible to I Ching.
Christ on the crapper,
But change’s always harsh on the loser. Nothing new.
A paranoiac, my friend, is a person who has gone crazy in the most intelligent, well-informed way, the world being what it is. The paranoiac believes that great secret conspiracies are afoot to destro...
A lot can be said for the infinite mercies of God, but the smarts of a good pharmacist, when you get down to it, is worth more.
A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either by design or mistake. We mean, basically, someone who does not care about the fate which hi...
Guilt -- if there was any guilt -- spread out and diffused itself over everybody and everything. . . . Perhaps at some point in time, at some spot in the world, a moment of responsibility existed.
You learn to get by from day to day, Sam Regan said sympathetically to him. You never think in longer terms. Just until dinner or until time for bed; very finite intervals and tasks and pleasures. Esc...
What was on the other side?Donna said, He said there was another world on the other side. He could see it.He... never went through it?That’s why he kicked the shit out of everything in his apartment;...
What if he could see this, his own skull, yellow and eroded? Two centuries old. Would he still speak? Would he speak, if he could see it, the grinning, aged skull? What would there be for him to say,...
What do you want? Egg in your beer?
We trust—I’ll tell you what we trust that fouls us up, Roy; it’s our goddamn superior intelligence!
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Upon him the contempt of three planets descended.
They – note the ‘they’ – paid Dr Stone to figure out what had destroyed the patient entering the ward. In each case a bullet had been fired at him, somewhere, at some time, in his life. The bullet ent...