Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker’s game because they almost always turn out to be – or to be indistinguishable from – self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.
When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.
It is what you don’t expect... that most needs looking for.
The hour of noon has passed,′ said Judge Fang. ‘Let us go and get some Kentucky Fried Chicken.
In a manner familiar to anyone who had ever packed a car for a family trip, genial confusion gave way to impatience, then furious ultimatums, then ill-advised snap decisions.
Every true heart needed a pragmatic counterweight, and every cynic an idealist to lift his spirits.
In the wilderness, only the most terrible beasts of prey cavort and gambol. Deer and rabbits play no games.
Just aiming a speely input device, or a Farspark chambre, or whatever you call it... a speelycaptor... at something doesn’t collect what is meaningful to me. I need someone to gather it in with all their senses, mix it round in their head, and make it over into words.
BMW drivers take evasive action at the drop of a hat, emulating the drivers in the BMW advertisements – this is how they convince themselves they didn’t get ripped off.
It would be an idyllic tropical paradise if not for the malaria, the insects, the constant diarrhea and resulting hemorrhoids, and the fact that the people are dirty and smell bad and eat each other and use human heads for decoration.
Maybe this was all down to some supernatural effect, such as grace, that flowed through people’s lives even if they didn’t understand why.
I hadn’t known that,′ I said. ‘I always tend to assume there’s an infinite amount of money out there.’ ‘There might as well be,’ Arsibalt said, ’but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water, and bombs.
What, not coins in the bank? Does your purse hang as flaccid as a gelding’s scrotum?
It gave them something to do and it took their mind off the way Yuxia was driving, which, had they paid attention to it, might have been the most frightening thing they had seen all day.
Don Donald was clearly accustomed to addressing people whose only way of responding was to nod worshipfully and take notes.
Later, he was to decide that Andrew’s life had been fractally weird. That is, you could take any small piece of it and examine it in detail and it, in and of itself, would turn out to be just as complicated and weird as the whole thing in its entirety.