The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself.
And with it all, he was proud of himself. He had brought his mother to tears. “Let her cry for once. Not me. It is time for her to learn.
Since I believe that I have been a devil for many centuries and have risen in rank and been demoted, it could be asked why, with such a history, I still learned a good deal while in Russia. It is because a newly gained sophistication fades once a venture comes to an end. So we develop many new qualities of mind, but soon lose them.
All you need do is nod. I already know nine parts in ten of what he will say, but it is like fishing. Be patient, and you will get what you came for.
Our minds race ahead of us and summon strangers.
In its true exchange, one cannot gain a great deal unless one is willing to dare losing all.
This business of living for eternity certainly contributed to capital punishment, brutality, and war.
Was the conquest of space then a potential chariot of Satan, the unique and grand avenue for the new totalitarian?
When you start to open a door, the pressure has to be greatest in the beginning, yet the door moves the least.
Since he had, in contrast to his delivery, a big burly squared-off bulk of a body which gave hint of the methodical ruthlessness of more than one Russian bureaucrat, Von Braun’s relatively small voice, darting eyes, and semaphoric presentations of lip made it obvious he was a man of opposites. He.
There seems to be endless capacity for strife in your system.” “Of course there is. Doesn’t that fit human nature?
Kid, I can handle anything but the middle of the night.
For if we are our own force, we are also a servant of the forces of the dead. So we have to be bold enough to live with all the magical forces at loose between the living and the dead. That is never free of dread. It takes bravery to live with beauty or wealth if we think of them as an existence connected to the messages, the curses, and the loyalties of the dead. In.
Despair is the emotion we feel at the death of beings within us.
A cop is a human creature born stupid and raised in stupidity.
I always thought,′ I said, ’that a man became a cop to be shielded from his own criminality.
Even now she was very patriotic, and like most patriots she felt strongly and thought weakly, and so it was not easy to argue with her.
Consciousness, that blunt tool, bucks in the general direction of the truth. Instinct plucks the feather.
God is a luxury I don’t give myself.
What have we accomplished? There aren’t going to be less murders.
Pain was a boring conversationalist who never stopped, just found new topics.