'Marvelous,' Paul Dur had whispered, more to himself than to his young companion.
'Marvelous. It is at times like this that I have the sense... the slightest sense ยท . . of what a sacrifice it must have been for the Son of God to condescend to become the Son of Man.'
sol story is always good
the lamia story has johnny mention strange loops which is nice
The day is perfect and I hate it for being so.
Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.
Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion
Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.
Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized.