Whatever you fear will happen to you, booze will make it happen.
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,...
We were great builders, but one day we decided to play a game. We did it voluntarily; were we such good builders that we could build a maze with a way out but which constantly changed so that, despite...
Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.
Thomas, Fat told me, is smarter than I am, and he knows more than I do. Of the two of us Thomas is the master personality. He considered that good; woe unto someone who has an evil or stupid other per...
There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.
The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears, its mouth open in a vast, soundless scream. Twisted ripples of the creatu...
The inanity of her remark infuriated him. 'Good grief don't you understand Janet? At this point I'm thoroughly delusional. I'm as mentally ill as it's possible to be. It's incredible that I can commun...
The end times were not the end times after all. The end times were always coming but never here, always nearby and influencing us but never realized.
The Public School, then, was right to eject a child who did not learn. Because what the child was learning was not merely facts or the basis of a money-making or even useful career. It went much deepe...
Someday, he thought, it’ll be mandatory that we all sell the McDonald’s hamburger as well as buy it; we’ll sell it back and forth to each other forever from our living rooms. That way we won’t even ha...
Send that, he told her. Sign it, et cetera. Work the sentences, if you wish, so that they will mean something. As she started from the office he added, Or so that they mean nothing. Whichever you pref...
Perhaps, deformed as it was, Earth remained familiar, to be clung to. Or possibly the non-emigrant imagined that the tent of dust would deplete itself finally.
No one, it appeared to Barney, had anything to do now; the weight of empty time hung over them all.
Maybe—after 14 months all I really know is that I don’t know anything except that it happened to me, and what I saw during that short time was real. That’s
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. Takin...
John Isidore said, I found a spider.The three androids glanced up, momentarily moving their attention from the TV screen to him.Let’s see it, Pris said. She held out her hand.Roy Baty said, Don’t talk...
I don't have time to read popular fiction. I'm too busy with work.' Secretaries, he thought acidly, read that junk, at home in bed at night. It stimulates them. Instead of the real thing. Which they'r...
His thoughts, Helio said, are as clear as plastic to me, and mine likewise to him. We are both prisoners, Mister, in a hostile land. At that Arnie laughed loud and long. Truth always amuses the ignora...
God, they read a book, he thought, and they spout on forever.