It's the little touches that make a future solid enough to destroy.

For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years. Like some people who cannot vomit despite horrible nausea, she lay there unable to die, resisting death as she had resisted life, frozen with resentment of process and change.

How far would people get in physics if discovery was described as disgusting - "Your formula is disgusting and filthy"? Not very far.

The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.

He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.

Forward steps are made by giving up old armor because words are built into you - in the soft typewriter of the womb you do not realize the word-armor you carry; for example, when you read this page your eyes move irresistibly from left to right following the words that you have been accustomed to.

The self is like a pimping blackmailing chauffeur who gets you from here to there on word lines.