Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot.
Neal StephensonSupposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?
Neal StephensonConstable Moore had reached the age when men can subject their bodies to the worst irritations - whisky, cigars, woolen clothes, bagpipes - without feeling a thing or, at least, without letting on.
Neal StephensonThis made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens such as educating people and doing research.
Neal Stephenson