collections
"ahhhhh! merchantilism! colonialism! decolonialism! neocolonialism! ahhhhhh!" --Brock. The ahhhs are those of giddy enthusiasm, not terror. I agree wholeheartedly.
"You never learn to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing." --Gene Wolfe
"I have a brother. They say, you put us together, we are like one person, you know? When we are young, his hair, it is very blond, very light, his eyes are blue, and people say, he is the good one. And my hair it is very dark, darker than yours even, and people say I am the rogue, you know? I am the bad one. And now time passes, and my hair is grey. His hair, too, I think, is grey. And you look at us, you would not know who was light, who was dark." --Neil Gaiman, 'American Gods'
"And the moral of this story, according to Johnnie Larch, was this: don't piss off people who work in airports.
'Are you sure it's not something like "The kind of behavior that works in a specialised environment, such as a prison, can fail to work and in fact become harmful when used outside such an environment"?'
'No, listen to me, I'm telling you man,' said Johnnie Larch, 'don't piss off those bitches in airports."
--NG, 'AG'
"The first thing [he said] was 'I love you,' because it's a good thing to say if you can mean it, and he did." --NG, 'AG'
"You never learn to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing." --Gene Wolfe
"I have a brother. They say, you put us together, we are like one person, you know? When we are young, his hair, it is very blond, very light, his eyes are blue, and people say, he is the good one. And my hair it is very dark, darker than yours even, and people say I am the rogue, you know? I am the bad one. And now time passes, and my hair is grey. His hair, too, I think, is grey. And you look at us, you would not know who was light, who was dark." --Neil Gaiman, 'American Gods'
"And the moral of this story, according to Johnnie Larch, was this: don't piss off people who work in airports.
'Are you sure it's not something like "The kind of behavior that works in a specialised environment, such as a prison, can fail to work and in fact become harmful when used outside such an environment"?'
'No, listen to me, I'm telling you man,' said Johnnie Larch, 'don't piss off those bitches in airports."
--NG, 'AG'
"The first thing [he said] was 'I love you,' because it's a good thing to say if you can mean it, and he did." --NG, 'AG'