A proud man who could do more than he is asked to do. It is not good for the spirit.
As for monkeys, I would have five, and they would be named: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, Do Pretty Much Whatever The Hell You Want, and Expensive Attorney.
Tunnel into Ocher Bar, the long cavern below the Counting Room.
But sometimes when things go very wrong and even the highest are frightened, innocence is not enough for salvation.
You took your shot. It didn’t work out. Now you get to do laundry. That’s what life is shaped like.
When you stopped to think about it, he reflected, there weren’t many things in life one truly needed. To want too much was worse than greed: it was stupidity—a waste of precious time and effort. The
What is it you want, fairy woman? he asked at last. I have dead men to burn and a siege to finish. Ayaminu
What does that mean, 'real'? Amn't I real, you? If you cut me, do I not bleed? If you piss me off, will I not kick you up the arse?
Welcome, Simon, to the world of those who are every day condemned to thinking and wondering and never ever knowing with certainness.
We were already fucked so many ways they could have dedicated an entire revision of the Kama Sutra just to us.
There were more problems with solitude than just being horny and bored. If you didn't have anyone to talk to for days on end, you didn't have anyone to let you know whether you were going nuts or not.
The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.
Thank you for your news, Princess. It is none of it happy, but only a fool desires cheerful ignorance and I try not to be a fool. That is my heaviest burden.
Stairs. This is Hell. Hell is stairs, was all Theo could think. I'd sell my soul for a goddamn elevator. But I don't have a soul, do I? I'm some kind of fairy.Okay, settle for an escalator, then.
Men do not manage well with too much peace. Someone will find a quarrel.
In the midst of such industry, gawky Simon was the fabled grasshopper in the nest of ants. He knew he would never amount to much: many people had told him so, and nearly all of them were older—and pre...
I know, I know, numbers are not what you’re interested in, except those of you who are engineers.
I don’t get it, Clarence whispered to me. We’re the only ones in the place. When are your friends supposed to get here?Why, bab? asked the cream pitcher, its top opening and closing like a tiny silver...
He was not great; he was, in fact, very small. At the same moment, though, he was important, just as any point of light in a dark sky might be the star that led a mariner to safety, or the star watche...
Experience came easily enough, learning how not to suffer would have proved much more practical.