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Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.

He hasn't even eaten at Olive Garden, so I doubt he's a connoisseur of hotels. - KatNo Olive Garden? Man, we've got to get that boy some endless breadsticks and salad. Travesty. - Daemon

Huey Newton laid down his life for us," Stokely Carmichael had said the same night. But of course Huey Newton had not yet laid down his life at all, was just here in the Alameda County Jail waiting to...

I wandered through various public rooms, glory below, gloom above: for the look of lust always is gloomy; lust is never quite sure--even when the velvety victim is locked up in one's dungeon--that...

Moses, you see, had walked with God long enough to know that even though the Lord's directions might seem foolish, he wasn't to question them. And

Joan Baez was a personality before she was entirely a person, and, like anyone to whom that happens, she is in a sense the hapless victim of what others have seen in her, written about her, wanted her...

right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts.

Law itself is either suspended, or regarded as an instrument that the state may use in the service of constraining and monitoring a given population; the state is not subject to the rule of law, but...

...laughter emerges in the realization that all along the original was derived.

Everyone knew women were far more ruthless than men. Men got mad and women got even, there was a big difference.

I suspect that scientists are driven by the sense that the world out there - reality - contains a hidden order, and the scientist is trying to elucidate the hidden order in our reality. And that...

Pride precedes the fall. All glory is ephemeral. Icarus burned his wings. The human being liked to be a giant - but it's the fuck, comrade. There is no need to believe in chance and crack in the...

If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.

The previously unloved may find it hard to believe that they are now loved; that is such a miracle, they feel; such a miracle.

It is with imaginary writers that I learn what I want to do. For example, Stephen Dedalus or Nick Adams. I read their lives as a way to understand what it is about. I have no interest in inspiring...

{I loved her so much, and} I can't begin to explain how lucky it is to find someone you can love that much and who, miracle of miracles, loves you that much back.

Succeed: theory. Prosperity argues capacity. Win in the lottery, and behold! you are a clever man. He who triumphs is venerated. Be born with a silver spoon in your mouth! everything lies in that. Be...

And there are words, significant words, you do not want to say, words that account for busted-up lives, words that try to fix something ruined that shouldn't be ruined and no one wanted ruined, and...

there was no such thing as past or future. There was no time that could be lost or won. The only thing that counted was action.

Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children... It was a fleeting statement, one I didn't think she'd hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us,...

Let me make a clean breast of it here, and frankly admit that I kept but sorry guard. With the problem of the universe revolving in me, how could I-being left completely to myself at such a...

To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.

Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows...

All one's actual apprehension of what it is like to be a woman, the irreconcilable difference of it-that sense of living one's deepest life underwater, that dark involvement with blood and birth and...

That gin-soaked little Nazi from the Gazette got pissed off when you didn't doff your hat for the national anthem, Burgin explained. He kept bitching about you to the guy in charge of the press box,...

Irigaray remarks in such a vein that "the masquerade... is what women do... in order to participate in man's desire, but at the cost of giving up their own".

Now she knew why her mum had kept such a close eye on her; she wasn't interfering as such, she had just understood that there were people in this world who were capable of causing great hurt as well...

She was not a person who had any right to decency or kindness, she was not a person to aspire to be. She was cruel, and she was evil in many ways. She took what she wanted from anyone, she was nasty,...

Tardiness was the greatest insult of them all; arrangements were made to suit those concerned – it was the height of rudeness to overlook other people's needs.

Why did people feel like this nowadays? Why were they so scared of chastising their kids, of making them listen to reason, explaining that what they were doing was wrong? Mary had not felt for a long...

It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important.

Preparations for the slaughter of mankind have always been made in the name of God or some supposed higher being which men have devised and created in their own imagination.

A novel is not an allegory, I said as the period was about to come to an end. It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and...