Runners are bouncing up and down at the curb waiting for lights to change. Cops are in coffee shops dealing with bagel deficiencies.
Run away with me, said Roseman when the coffee came. Where? she asked. That shut him up.
Ruins he goes daily to look in are each a sermon on vanity.
Remember how they outlawed acid soon as they found out it was a channel to somethin they didn’t want us to see? Why should information be any different?
Reef lit a hemp-and-tobacco cigarette and reviewed his situation, while around him infectious melodies and rhythms went on refashioning the night.
Reclaimed by the small-time day-to-day, pretending life is Back To Normal, wrapping herself shivering against contingency's winter in some threadbare blanket of first-quarter expenses, school committe...
Out of that night and day of unconditional wrath, folks would've expected to see any city, if it survived, all newly reborn, purified by flame, taken clear beyond greed, real-estate speculating, local...
One minute you’re gettin a nice blow job, the next it’s like fuckin Vietnam, assault teams everyplace you look, scuba units climbin out of the Jacuzzi, chicks runnin around screaming. . . .
Oedipa stood in the living room, stared at by the greenish dead eye of the TV tube, spoke the name of God, tried to feel as drunk as possible. But this did not work.
Nobody in this band was a musician when they joined up, but everybody was in some kind of trouble. Play con entusiasmo, as loudly as you can, and trust the good will and bad ear of the gringo hellrais...
No matter how the official narrative of this turns out, it seemed to Heidi, these are the places we should be looking, not in newspapers or television but at the margins, graffiti, uncontrolled uttera...
Neither of them had ever had much interest in breaking each other’s heart.
Neither of them had ever had much interest in breaking each other’s heart. In theory they both knew she had to move on, though all he wanted right now was to wait, even just another day. But he knew t...
Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. Everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me, strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after d...
Man, I want to die, is all,' cried Ploy.'Don't you know,' said Dahoud, 'that life is the most precious possession you have?''Ho, ho,' said Ploy through his tears. 'Why?''Because,' said Dahoud, 'withou...
Man, I want to die, is all, cried Ploy.Don't you know, said Dahoud, that life is the most precious possession you have?
Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.
Last apricot light flooded landward and brought their shadows uphill, past the lifeguard towers, into terraces of bougainvillea, rhododendrons, and ice plant.
Keep it bouncing, he'd told her once, that's all the secret, keep it bouncing.
Just don't tell me you're in love, OK?Sister, I ain't even in line.