God created dinosaurs. God destroyed dinosaurs. God created Man. Man destroyed God. Man created dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat man...Woman inherits the earth.
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you squarely in the eye and said he would rather die than be killed in combat
God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the ones who had taken it away--become afraid, more protective of their endangered interests, more...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect some aspect of myself that was now in constant retreat.
The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
What we are confronted with now is the problem posed by the economic and symbolic structure of television. Those who run television do not limit our access to information but in fact widen it. Our...
This is what happens to those who sit still. People who did nothing ended up with nothing lives lived on nothing furniture inside a nothing space doing nothing watching nothing being nothing. They...
I really don't know why the fools are angry when they hold them there. One can climb naked on the floor, go like jackal, rage and bite. If you could do it somewhere on the promenade, people would be...
That day I had a poignant feeling, like an early mourning. What I had most dear had been crushed like a field of field flowers, razed to the ground to make room for a well -kept garden. Not even when...
In the course of the five, six years that I stayed in Russia, I was killed or declared death a few times by various organizations and individuals
Because the lenders sold many-though not all-of the loans they made to other investors, in the form of mortgage bonds, the industry was also fraught with moral hazard. It was a fast-buck business,...
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Jesus Christ was innocent too,' said Svejk, 'and all the same they crucified him. No one anywhere has ever worried about a man being innocent. Maul halten und weiter dienen {'Grin and bear it and get...
The credibility of the teller is the ultimate test of the truth of a proposition. {102}
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.
It is really frightening for a person to feel freedom, and to be responsible for his decisions!
The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaking havoc across the land, a mercenary and utilitarian attitude that demonstrates little empathy for...
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
But heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners. And heaven itself has many steps.
The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
Everything today has been heavy and brown. Bring me a Unicorn to ride about the town.
The boy who rode on slightly before him sat a horse not only as if he'd been born to it which he was but as if were he begot by malice or mischance into some queer land where horses never were he...
We shed skins in life, to keep living.
How do you know when to advance the conversation or when there's something still unresolved? When you are situationally aware, you watch the body language and notice the cues that are given to you....
She was feeling far from inspired and her self-belief was at an all-time low.
Drop the fucking weapon, you fucking motherfucker or I'll fucking scramble your fucking brains. Hands up! Hands where I can fucking see them, you fucking cocksucker. You fucking breathe wrong, you...
What are you, tap dancing up there? You want a put on a show, do you? Well, the theater's closed for the night. Take your act on the road; it's four o'clock in the morning,goddamnit.
There's the mackerel of the cornflake for you, you dirty reader of filth and nastiness.
Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
