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Are you . . . a policeman?"
"No. They'll be along shortly, I expect. Public suicide's a felony."
". . . I'm sorry.

Briefly he has lived in a dream more real than all his miserable life.

With your hand controlling all the input and your eye reading all the response you can make them a god . . . and somebody'll do the same for you.

Nothing but the effects of dust and vapor in the thin skin of air whereupon she crawls wingless.

The only way I can possibly heat my so-called mind up to working temperature is to imagine I'm talking to someone I admire.

I've had too many experiences in my life of being the first woman in some damned occupation.

Man is an animal whose dreams come true and kill him.

I dreamed horse and lived horse and expected, if necessary, to marry a horse; for all practical purposes I was a horse.

Passing in any crowd are secret people whose hidden response to beauty is the desire to tear it into bleeding meat.

Absolutes are absolutely dangerous ...

I have a cold mind and a warm heart, whereas most people have cold, troubled hearts and warm, muggy minds, which they mistake for sincere feelings.

Evil is the voltage of good; the urge to goodness, without the potential of evil, is trivial.

Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.

I cannot teach
if I teach as teaching should be I become so exhausted I nearly die, I seem to have no middle gear.

Ahead lies only the irreversible long decline. For the first time we know there is nothing beyond ourselves.

And here is our girl, looking
If possible, worse than before. (You thought this was Cinderella transistorized?)

Good is too often allied with vulnerability and evil with power.

Any chance beats no chance.

Before he could lose courage he flung himself back and slammed his sleep-inducer to full theta.

For dreams that never die.

Well, what brand of water do you drink?"
"Just what was in the faucet, sir," says Delphi humbly. "I--I did try to boil it--"
"Good God.

All I can say is that laughter is my music; I would deeply suspect an argument which hadn't laughter.

Being, I imagine, must be very simple. It is Becoming which is so messy and which I am all for.