Nonfiction that smells like fiction is neither.
Our will to power, our science, and those v. faculties that elevated us from apes, to savages, to modern man, are the same faculties that’ll snuff out Homo sapiens before this century is out!
Valium rubs out speech marks and pops thought-bubbles.
Birth deals us out a hand of cards, but as important as their value is the place we are dealt them in.
The impossible is negotiable. What is possible is malleable.
At your age – says Mr. Hughees -, you think getting old and dying’s what other people do. At my age, you think, Where did it all go? If you want to do something, do it. ‘Cause your turn to be in that box, it’s coming. No doctor, no diet, no nothing’ll keep it away. It’ll be here. Quick as – she snaps her fingers and Elf blinks – that.
Today’s the day I either change my life or I don’t.
Every Adam needs an Eve.
I wish, he thinks, spoken words could be captured and kept in a locket.
A random sequence of seemingly unrelated events.
Uncle Norm says, ‘Pity is a form of abuse.
Every instance of undying love was only half an hour young, once upon a time.
The purpose of modern warfare is to slay as many civilians as possible.
Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years. The End is what we want, so I’m afraid the End is what we’re damn well going to get.
Only the inanimate can be so alive.
Beware of asking people to question what’s real and what isn’t. They may reach conclusions you didn’t see coming.
There’s a link between bigotry and bad spelling. I’ve met it before.
Young mothers are the most vicious tribe in the world if you don’t fit in.
A dragonfly settles on a bulrush an inch from my nose. Its wings are like cellophane and Jonah says, “Its wings are like cellophane,” and I say, “I was just thinking that,” but Jonah says, “Just thinking what?” so maybe I just thought he’d said it. Valium rubs out speech marks and pops thought-bubbles. I’ve noticed it before.
Rights are susceptible to subversion, as even granite is susceptible to erosion. My fifth Declaration posits how, in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only “rights,” the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful.