It had been more or less the same for Jilly. Except that she had her parents there to field any phone calls, to accept the flowers at the door and pick up the cards that dropped like tears through the letterbox. She sat before her dressing table mirr...
A nonhuman animal had better have a good lawyer. In 1508, Bartholomé Chassenée earned fame and fortune for his eloquent representation of the rats of his French province. These rats had been charged with destroying the barley crop and also with ign...
Feelings of any kind are not known to the walking dead. Every form of psychological warfare, from attempts at enraging the undead to provoking pity have all met with disaster. Joy, sadness, confidence, anxiety, love, hatred, fear—all of these feeli...
The women we really love are the women who complete us, who have the qualities we can borrow and so become something nearer to whole men. Just as we complete them, of course; it’s not a one-way thing. Leola and I, when romance was stripped away, we...
As I’ve said before, “the Mod generation”, contrary to popular belief, was not born in even 1958, but in the 1920s after a steady gestation from about 1917 or so. Now, Mod certainly came of age, fully sure of itself by 1958, completely misunder...
everybody loves a poet a poet loves everybody
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
The ages live in history through their anachronisms.
A story is never complete.
I am mission and must complete it.
You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.
Essex is an amazing county, with its own set of rules. It's a completely different world.
To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete.
Maybe nothing is completely true, and not even that.
The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
Hoax needed to complete the premises of truth.
You're a jerk,' repeated the alien, 'a complete asshole.
I flourish when I realize I'm already complete.
I have yet to be completely submerged in reality, for drowning in the sky.
...you never knew anybody completely. Not even yourself.
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.