You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow their cuteness ... Elegance, grace, delicacy, beauty, and a lack of...

There is a kidney-shaped fish pool outside the picture window. I cleaned it out and put in some large goldfish I bought in a bait store. The cats are always trying to catch the fish, with no success....

The word has not been recognized as a virus because it has achieved a state of stable symbiosis with the host.

I spit on the Christian God. When the White God arrived with the Spaniards, the Indians brought down fruit and corncakes and chocolate. The White Christian God proceeded to cut their hands off. He was...

If the soft machine works, don't fix it. If it works, don't fix it.

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...

I tried more than once to tell you, to communicate what I know. You did not or could not listen. You can not show to anyone what he has not seen.

Anything that can be accomplished chemically can be accomplished in other ways.

I'm an old-fashioned person, and I don't like informers.

The unworthies in power feel danger, like cows uneasily pawing the ground with a great Moo.

Lee watched the thin hands, the beautiful violet eyes, the flush of excitement on the boy's face. An imaginary hand projected with such force it seemed Allerton must feel the touch of ectoplasmic...

Junk sickness is the reverse side of junk kick. The kick of junk is that you have to have it. Junkies run on junktime and junkmetabolism. They are subject to junk climate. They are warmed and chilled...

But there are higher stakes than youth or Latah, games where only two players in the world know what the stakes are.

You're both mother fuckers. She was half asleep. Her voice was matter-of-fact as if referring to actual incest.

Now, boys, you won't see this operation performed very often and there's a reason for that... You see it has absolutely no medical value. No one knows what the purpose of it originally was or if it...

I don't spot junk neighbourhoods by the way they look, but by the feel, somewhat the same process by which a dowser locates hidden water. I am walking along and suddenly the junk in my cells moves and...

There's a boy across the river with an ass like a peach; alas I was no swimmer and lost my Clementine.