The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.- pg. 41
Death was in every sell of his body. He gave off a faint, greenish steam of decay. Lee imagined he would glow in the dark.
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'
Dream long enough and dream hard enoughyou will come to knowdreaming can make it so...
May 4, 1985. I am packing for a short trip to New York to discuss the cat book with Brion. In the front room where the kittens are kept, Calico Jane is nursing one black kitten. I pick up my Tourister...
If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.
If you are asking me what the individual can do right now, in a political sense, I'd have to say he can't do all that much. Speaking for myself, I am more concerned with the transformation of the indi...
After the shot he collapsed on the bed and lay there inert, but something was stirring in his spine from neck to the tail - and now pieces tore loose in the eggs and then a red, glistening head emerge...
A John is different from a sucker. When you're with a sucker you're on alert all the time. You give him nothing. A sucker is just to be taken but a John is different. You give him what he pays for. Wh...
Sodomy is as old as the human species.
That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.
Jesus Christ said 'by their fruits ye shall know them,' not by their disclaimers.
Wouldn't you?
The Ancient Egyptians postulated seven souls.Top soul (Vicarious), and the first to leave at the moment of death, is Ren the Secret name. This corresponds to my Director. He directs the film of your l...
Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked idiots stretches to the horizon. Complete silence - their speech centres are destroyed - except for t...
Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.
If the soft machine works, don't fix it. If it works, don't fix it.
For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years. Like some people who cannot vomit despite horrible nausea, she lay the...
But there are higher stakes than youth or Latah, games where only two players in the world know what the stakes are.