. . to the Bleekmen, we Earthmen may very well be hypomanic types, whizzing about at enormous velocity, expending huge amounts of energy over nothing at all.
The authentic human being is one of us who instinctively knows what he should not do, and, in addition, he will balk at doing it. He will refuse to do it, even if this brings down dread consequences t...
A brand-new tape recorder, completely worn out. Bought with funny money that the store is willing to accept. Worthless money, worthless article purchased; it has a sort of logic to it.
The tyranny of an object, he thought. It doesn't know I exist.
The next thing he knew, a creature from between dimensions was standing beside his bed looking down at him disapprovingly.The creature had many eyes, all over it, ultra-modern expensive-looking clothi...
Metal is from the earth, he thought as he scrutinized. From below: from that realm which is the lowest, the most dense. Land of trolls and caves, dank, always dark. Yin world, in its most melancholy a...
It will end, Childan thought. Someday. The very idea of place. Not governed and governing, but people.
In his article, Bogen concluded: I believe [with Wigan] that each of us has two minds in one person. There is a host of detail to be marshaled in this case. But we must eventually confront directly th...
I didn't choose to get entangled in my domestic life, my boxer's clinch with Kathy. And if you think I did or do, it's because you're morbidly young. You've failed to pass from adolescent freedom into...
But reality really is a mess, and yet it's exciting. The basic thing is, how frightened are you of chaos? And how happy are you with order? Van Vogt influenced me so much because he made me appreciate...
…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.
What you should do, she told Fat during one of his darker hours, is get into studying the characteristics of the T-34. Fat asked what that was. It turned out that Sherri had read a book on Russion arm...
There ought to be an ordinance that a man can't work for the same outfit as his wife; hell, even in the same city.
She smiled innocuously—at variance with her words. At this point he could not discern her degree of seriousness. A topic of world-shaking importance, yet dealt with facetiously; an android trait, poss...
Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair.
Maybe there's a machine in Berkeley that will save me, too. Perhaps my problems can be automated out of existence.
I see,' Rick said. He felt numb. Completely. Throughout his entire body.
I have never yielded to reality.
I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let him know. After all, if you are a Buddha you should be able to figure it out for yourself...
Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because, ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and vict...