Everything wears out eventually; nothing is permanent. Change is the one constant of life.
Every time I see a picture of Stalin I look him square in the eye and I say: You're a meat eater, Joseph.
Eric, I'm going to pay you back for leaving me. She smoothed her dress. You understand? Yes, he said, and walked into the kitchen. I'll devote my life to it, Kathy said, from the bedroom. Now I have a...
Emptiness. He saw no one, only a large chamber with pewlike rows of seats and, at the far end, a casket surrounded by flowers. Off in a small sideroom an old-fashioned reed pump organ and a few wooden...
Empathy, evidently, existed only within the human community, whereas intelligence to some degree could be found throughout every phylum and order including the arachnida.
Dr. Leon Stone turned out to be one of the most important people in Horselover Fat's life. To get to Stone, Fat had to nearly kill himself physically, matching his mental death. Is this what they mean...
Don’t pause and be philosophical, because from a philosophical standpoint it’s dreary. For us both. He
Death is very close, he thought. When you think in this manner. I can feel it, he decided. How near I am. Nothing is killing me; I have no enemy, no antagonist; I am merely expiring, like a magazine s...
Dear Jeff,I happened to see the Channel 7 TV program Hooray for Hollywood tonight with the segment on . (Well, to be honest, I didn't happen to see it; someone tipped me off that was going to be a pa...
But the actual touch of her lingered, inside his heart. That remained. In all the years of his life ahead, the long years without her, with never seeing her or hearing from her or knowing anything abo...
Bob, you know something . . . Luckman said at last. I used to be the same age as everyone else. I think so was I, Arctor said. I don’t know what did it. Sure, Luckman, Arctor said, you know what did i...
Bize geçmişi hatırlamayanlar onu tekrar etmeye mahkumdur, denir, ama belki de bu daha iyidir. Belki de iyi olan tek şey budur; unutmayı başarmak.
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.
As the spring rains fall, soaking in them, on the roof, is a child’s rag ball.
As long as some creature experienced joy, then the condition for all other creatures included a fragment of joy. However, if any living being suffered, then for all the rest the shadow could not be en...
Amazed, Fat said, She's decomposing and yet she's still giving birth?Only to monsters, Dr. Stone 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.
After he saw God [Tony Amsterdam] felt really good, for around a year. And then he felt really bad. Worse than he ever had before in his life. Because one day it came over him, he began to realize, th...
A Gresham’s Law: the fakes would undermine the value of the real.