Spray a bug with a toxin and it dies; spray a man, spray his brain, and he becomes an insect that clacks and vibrates about in a closed circle forever. A reflex machine, like an ant. Repeating his las...
He started keeping a journal - had been, in fact, secretly doing so for some time: the furtive act of a deranged person.
If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.
Let me sleep, he said, and shut the door; it clicked in her face and she felt animal terror - this was what she feared most in life: the clicking shut of a man's door in her face.Instantly, she raised...
We did not fall because of a moral error; we fell because of an intellectual error: that of taking the phenomenal world as real. Therefore we are morally innocent.
Reality denied comes back to haunt.
Mors certa, vita incerta,
Mental illness is not funny.
Empathy, evidently, existed only within the human community, whereas intelligence to some degree could be found throughout every phylum and order including the arachnida. For one thing, the empathic f...
But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent.
The first thing they do to you when you go into New-Path, Charles Freck said, is they cut off your pecker. As an object lesson. And then they fan out in all directions from there.Your spleen next, Bar...
The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing?
An android, he said, doesn’t care what happens to another android. That’s one of the indications we look for.Then, Miss Luft said, you must be an android.
Maybe I'll go where I can see stars, he said to himself as the car gained velocity and altitude; it headed away from San Francisco, toward the uninhabited desolation to the north. To the place where n...
Blade, she thought. I swallowed it; now cuts my loins forever. Punishment. Married to a Jew and shacking up with a German assassin. She felt tears again in her eyes, boiling. For all I have committed....
I've always told people that for each person there is a sentence--a series of words--which has the power to destroy him. When Fat told me about Leon Stone I realized (this came years after the first r...
A law of survival, Ragle had said. Those who refused to respond to the new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish . . . version of a timeless rule.
We must content ourselves with the mystery, the absurdity, the contradictions, the hostility, but also the generosity that our environment offers us. It's not much, but it's always better than the dea...
To live is to be haunted.
They want to be the agents, not the victims, of history. They identify with God's power and believe they are godlike. That is their basic madness. They are overcome by some archtype; their egos have e...