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;...
Perhaps this is the bottom line to mental illness: incomprehensible events occur; your life becomes a bin for hoax-like fluctuations of what used to be reality. And not only that—as if that weren't en...
Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up. I
One cannot judge by book being best seller. We all know that. Many best sellers are terrible trash.
Maybe there was once a human who looked like you, and somewhere along the line you killed him and took his place. And your superiors don’t know.
Law of economy: nothing is waste. Even the unreal. What a sublimity in the process.
If this place were closer to Terra there’d be empty beer cans and plastic plates strewn around. The trees would be gone. There’d be old jet motors in the water. The beaches would stink to high heaven....
If I’m an andy, Phil Resch said, and you kill me, you can have my squirrel. Here; I’ll write it out, willing it to you.
I will always speak the truth to you, Herb Asher, the boy continued. There is no deceit in God. I want you to live. I made you live once before, when you lay in psychological death. God does not desir...
I mean, after all; you have to consider we're only made out of dust. That's admittedly not much to go and we shouldn't forget that. But even considering, I mean it's sort of a bad beginning, we're not...
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...
But at least he can still see the lights below us. Although maybe for him it doesn't matter.
And what good was a political strategist who couldn't look ahead to his own death? Without that he would have been merely another Hitler, who didn't want his country to survive him.
And this is the straight dope, right here. These people are not exactly human. They don the dress but they're like monkeys dolled up in the circus. They're clever and can learn, but that is all.
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.
You put on a bishop's robe and miter, he pondered, and walk around in that, and people bow and genuflect and like that, and try to kiss your ring, if not your ass, and pretty soon you're a bishop. So...
You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here I could stand it... But now it has changed. You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people...
When you had hopes once,’ Hadley explained after a pause, ‘it’s always hard to go on after you give them up. It’s not so hard to give them up; that part is easy. After all, you’ve got to, sometimes. B...