Before they came here I could stand it, being alone in the building. But now it’s changed… You can’t go from people to nonpeople.
Back to Germany, one of the cops said, surveying him. I’m an American, Frank Frink said. You’re a Jew, the cop said.
Am I the only one who knows? I'll bet I am; nobody else really understands Grasshopper but me - they just imagine they do.
Zaman. belki zaman da yuvarlaktır, tıpkı dünya gibi. hindistana ulaşmak için batıya doğru yelken açarsın. sana gülerler ama sonunda hindistan önündedir, arkanda değil.zamanla- belki hepimiz yelken açm...
Within him an actual hatred once more manifested itself toward his electric sheep, which he had to tend, had to care about, as if it lived. The tyranny of an object, he thought. It doesn’t know I exis...
Most horrid sound in the world, that of the once-was: alive in the past, perishing in the present, a corpse made of dust in the future.
Whatever you fear will happen to you, booze will make it happen.
We are all sleeping avatars of God, with amnesia.
Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.
Too bad. And Mozart, not long after writing The Magic Flute, had died--in his thirties--of kidney disease. And had been buried in an unmarked pauper's grave.Thinking this, he wondered if Mozart had an...
This kind of neighborhood did not please him; he had seen it a million times, duplicated throughout the face of the earth. It had been from such as this that he had fled, early in his life, to use his...
They were a form of mutated twinning, joined at the base of the skull so that a single cephalic structure served both separate bodies. Evidently the personality George inhabited one hemisphere of the...
They know a million tricks, those novelists.
There were shoppers everywhere. Counter after counter. Salesgirls, mostly white, with a sprinkling of Japanese as department managers. The din was terrific.After some confusion Mr. Baynes located the...
There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.
The universe will never be extinguished because just when the darkness seems to have smothered all, to be truly transcendent, the new seeds of light are reborn in the very depths. That is the Way. Whe...
The termination of a relationship, he said, is not a misunderstanding. It's a reorganization of life.
The rule of survival, he thought. Keep eye peeled regarding situation around you. Learn its demands. And- meet them. Be there at the right time doing the right thing.
The hands of the artificer, Paul said, had wu, and allowed that wu to flow into this piece. Possibly he himself knows only that this piece satisfies. It is complete, Robert. By contemplating it, we ga...
The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than the razor's edge, sharper than a hound's tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does no...