If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.

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Keep cool but care.

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A screaming comes across the sky.

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The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.

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Though it is not often that death is so clearly told to fuck off.

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Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.

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Why should things be easy to understand?

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Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover.

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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.

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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.

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