Before man was war waited for him.
He keeps from off the king’s road for fear of citizenry.
At one time I could have seen myself living there. It was built by my great-grandfather. I’ve seen photographs of it and it was quite beautiful.
Mathematics is not physics. The physical sciences can be weighed against each other. And against what we suppose to be the world. Mathematics cant be weighed against anything.
I was unhappy as a child for reasons that are no longer important.
The rage of children seemed inexplicable other than as a breach of some deep and innate covenant having to do with how the world should be and wasnt. I understood that their raw exposure to the world was the world.
He wears on his head a hat he’s made from leaves and they have dried and cracked in the sun and he looks like a raggedyman wandered from some garden where he’d used to frighten birds.
If psychosis was was just some synapses misfiring why wouldnt you simply get static?
We come here from Georgia. Our family did. Horse and wagon. I pretty much know that for a fact. I know they’s a lots of things in a family history that just plain aint so. Any family. The stories gets passed on and the truth gets passed over. As the sayin goes.
That a drug can restructure the world into something like an objective reality is a claim with as little validity as the objective reality itself. I think what I said at the time was that I had no more reason to place my confidence in a drugged state of mind than in a sober one.
How about this: What’s black and white and red all over? I cant begin to think. Trotsky in a tuxedo.
Your only real safety would be in disappearing.
Beauty makes promises that beauty cant keep. I’ve seen it too many times. Twice in this house.
I sent one boy to the gaschamber at Huntsville. One and only one. My arrest and my testimony. I went up there and visited with him two or three times. Three times. The last time was the day of his execution. I didnt have to go but I did. I sure didnt want to. He’d killed a fourteen year old girl and I can tell you right now I never did have no great desire to visit with him let alone go to his execution but I done it.
When you’re defenseless you keep your opinions to yourself.
As she walked toward him her beauty seemed to him a thing altogether improbable.
An old man in a tyrolean costume was shuffling among the rough tables with his hat outheld while a little girl in a smock cranked a barrel organ and a bear in a crinoline twirled strangely upon a board stage defined by a row of tallow candles that dripped and sputtered in their pools of grease.
There are not any composers like Bach. There’s just Bach.
Sheddan said once that having read a few dozen books in common was more binding than blood.
Well. In this case it was led by a group of evil and aberrant and wholly malicious partial differential equations who had conspired to usurp their own reality from the questionable circuitry of its creator’s brain not unlike the rebellion which Milton describes and to fly their colors as an independent nation unaccountable to God or man alike. Something like that. You.