I’m all right now, I said, but leave me alone. I’m going down to the river to bathe. I took seven steps, and then someone must have pulled out the plug, because I gurgled, everything swirled, and the...
Il volto quasi familiare diventa un fenomeno comune in una società affollata ed in un continuo movimento. Penso talvolta che sia proprio ciò che in ultima analisi rimane di noi: schemi di lineamenti,...
If they come upon one who still has not seen it and they speak to him of fire, he does not know what they mean. So they, in turn, fall back upon telling him what fire is like. As they do so, they know...
I was willing to die fighting, but it was senseless for all these men to go down with me. Perhaps my blood was tainted, despite my power over the Pattern. A true prince of Amber should have had no suc...
Dress Blacks mag-bind down the sides, leaving a smooth front whereon is displayed a green-blue-gray-white Earth insignia, about three inches in diameter, high up on the left breast; below, the symbol...
But that is the way it is with all oracles, Jack. When that which is foreseen comes to pass, the inquirer is no longer the same person he was when he posed the question. It is impossible to make a man...
As a student of business administration, I know that there is a law of evolution for organizations as stringent and inevitable as anything in life. The longer one exists, the more it grinds out restri...
And sweets to the sweet, I replied, then spoke the word that completed the spell, dropping a load of manure upon him.
All progress demands payment. These are the growing pains of which you speak, not the final results. Fool! There is no such thing as progress! Not as you see it! What good are all the machines and ide...
The headwaters of Shit Creek are a cruel and treacherous expanse.
You are of that tribe with your feet in hell and your head in heaven.
Wishes, wishes, I told him, Wish in one hand and do something else in the other, and squeeze them both and see which comes true.
Two versions of the same face looking into blank screens, two very different minds thinking of things unsaid. Sometimes love is in silence.
The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three. I may subm...
The columns of mounted men moved forward, passed out through the gates of the Palace of Karma, turned off the roadway and headed up the slope that lay to the southeast of the city of Mahartha, comrade...
Later, much later, I was to see this for the rationalization it was; my real reason for denying her the answers she desired was that I was not ready to trust her, or anyone, so close to me as I really...
In a room the size of a ballroom the Pattern was laid. The floor was black and looked smooth as glass. And on the floor was the Pattern. It shimmered like the cold fire that it was, quivered, made the...
I walked among Shadows, and found a race of furry creatures, dark and clawed and fanged, reasonably manlike, and about as intelligent as a freshman in the high school of your choice-sorry, kids, but w...
I hunted rats and ate out of dustbins and saw my kittens killed and was hung by my tail and abused by wicked urchins, Graymalk said suddenly, before the mistress found me. She was an orphan who’d live...
How can you treat death so lightly? she asks.Because it happens, he replies. It is inevitable. I do not mourn the falling of a leaf or the breaking of a wave. I do not sorrow for a shooting star as it...