I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary."

Anesthetized time; nothing moves and everything is at once.

To hell with facts! We need stories.

The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?

What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.

turns me on so loud it's like no sound, everybody yelling at me hands over their ears from behind a glass wall, faces working around in talk circles but no sound from the mouths. my sound soaks up all other sound.

Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.