She was so elaborately and ostentatiously a female body that she seemed scarcely to be a human being.
One keeps oneself neat out of mere decency mere sanity, awareness of other people. And finally even that goes, and one dribbles unashamed.
No matter how humble the spirit it’s offered in, a sermon is an act of aggression.
Making female noises, shrieking and squeaking and being shrill, all those things that annoy people with longer vocal cords. Another case where the length of organs seems to be so important to men.
Justice, mercy, does Mars care for them?
I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
He looked at me. His firm, broad face showed weight-loss in deep shadows under the cheekbones, his eyes were sunken and his mouth sorely chapped and cracked. God knows what I looked like, when he look...
For if it's all the rest of us who are killed by the suicide, it's himself whom the murderer kills; only he has to do is over, and over, and over.
Encender una vela es proyectar una sombra...
Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.
And I see a lot of us, the producers, who write the books and make the books, accepting this--letting commodity profiteers sell us like deodorant, and tell us what to publish, what to write. Books are...
A man wants his virility regarded, a woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. On Winter they will not exist. One is respected and...
The social conscience completely dominates the individual conscience, instead of striking a balance with it. We don't cooperate--we . We fear being outcast, being called lazy, dysfunctional, egoizing....
[H.G. Wells said] that his method was "to trick his reader into an unwary concession to some plausible assumption and get on with his story while the illusion holds." Such prestidigitation is a charac...
I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.
It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For w...
Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness.
Which of us saved the other from the Labyrinth, Ged?
Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?