It takes a certain amount of courage, he though, to face yourself and say with candor, I'm rotten. I've done evil and I will again. It was no accident; it emanated from the true, authentic me.
This has been a novel about some people who were punished entirely too much for what they did. They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one af...
Am I racially kin to this man? Baynes wondered. So closely so that for all intents and purposes it is the same? Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen ar...
That's the existential problem, Fat said, based on the concept that We are what we do, rather than, We are what we think. It finds its first expression in Goethe's Faust, Part One, where Faust says, '...
Please don't continually say I'm paranoid.Why?It makes me paranoid.
Mors certa, vita incerta,
Mental illness is not funny.
Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.
I’ll sue you, the door said as the first screw fell out. Joe Chip said, I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.
It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.
Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small… and you will escape the jealousy of the great.
Norbert Wiener, Tillingford said. You recall his work in cybernetics. And, even more important, Enrico Destini’s work in the field of theophonics. What’s that? Tillingford raised an eyebrow. You are a...
Plastics. Polyesters. Resins. Ersatz—industrial uses. Do you see? No consumers’ commodities.
He sat watching the people go by, wondering how a thing of this sort could have come about, I must have let myself get mixed up in something horrible, he thought ... Probably she's the one who did it;...
God's M.O., he reflected, is to transmute evil into good. If He is active here, He is doing that now, although our eyes can't perceive it; the process lies hidden beneath the surface of reality, and e...
This is a mournful discovery.1)Those who agree with you are insane2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.
The existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority.
Masochism is more widespread than we realize because it takes an attenuated form. The basic dynamism is as follows: a human being sees something bad which is coming as inevitable. There is no way he c...
I love you,' Rachael said. 'If I entered a room and found a sofa covered with your hide I'd score very high on the Voigt-Kampff test.
I could see why she felt attracted to Sam K. Barrows. Birds of a feather, or rather lizards of a scale.