If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him?
I don’t even want you to nod, that’s how much you annoy me. Just freeze and shut up.
Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America’s like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.
Two tires fly. Two Wail. A bamboo grove, all chopped down From it, warring songs.
Hiro watches the large, radioactive, spear-throwing killer drug lord ride his motorcycle into Chinatown. Which is the same as riding it into China, as far as chasing him down is concerned.
That’s funny because if anyone actually did prove the existence of God we’d just tell him ‘nice proof, Fraa Bly’ and start believing in God.
That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code.
She looked at me like I was crazy. Most of my lovers do, and that’s partly why they love me, and partly why they leave.
Jad said, “The leakage was forcing choices, the making of which in no way improved matters.” Okay. So we were, in effect, locked in a room with a madman sorcerer. That clarified things a little.
Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?
I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor.
The sight of the bare katana inspires everyone to a practically Nipponese level of politeness.
How could your cover be blown in Canada? Why even bother going dark there? How could you tell?
So, you’re worried that a pink dragon will fly over the concent and fart nerve gas on us?
Humans needed water or they would die, but dirty water killed as surely as thirst. You had to boil it before you drank it. This culture around tea was a way of tiptoeing along the knife edge between those two ways of dying.
It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that they are too smart to be sexists.
The best way to know someone is to have a conversation with them.
Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways.
Leibniz is at the disadvantage of not having seen it. Or perhaps we should count this as an advantage, for anyone who sees it is dumbfounded by the brilliance of the geometry, and it is difficult to criticize a man’s work when you are down on your knees shielding your eyes.
They went inside. The young ones shuffled to a stop as their ironic sensibilities, which served them in lieu of souls, were jammed by a signal of overwhelming power.