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The city of San Antonio itself struck Greene as pleasant but symptomatic of America, in that its depths were no different from it surfaces:

America, for Greene, was the great spiritual deception – the heresy of well-being.

I began to have deviant thoughts about economic theory while I was a graduate student

And the priests, with awe, As such freaks they saw, Said, "The Devil must be in that little Jackdaw!"

Some of the most amazing human beings on the face of the planet go to sci-fi conventions, although I'm sure a few of them wouldn't admit it.

If California ever becomes a prosperous country, this bay [San Francisco] will be the center of its prosperity.

the book takes rank with those books which are bits of life rather than products of art.

Let me silent be, For silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above.

To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury....

purity of a sort is easily had where responsibilities are not assumed. The

My eyes are brown. So are my teeth. Just kidding about the teeth.

Some say we came God's purpose to fulfil - Faith a poor purpose then, if so you will; Sport for the heavenly huntsmen, others say, - Sorry the sport, methinks, and poor the skill.

Would you seek beauty, seek it underground; Would you find strength - the strong are underground; And would you next year seek my love and me, Who knows but you must seek us - underground?

Now you know what hurt it brings to women when men come into the world. Remember, and make it up to your Mama and to all women.

Such thoughts were a hideous testimony to the world he had accepted; a world in which murder was easier than hope.

Is he worse, then, than the publisher who filled ubiquitous racks with lust and death wishes? Really, now, search your soul, lovie – is the vampire so bad?

Emily Post mincing through the graveyard. Etiquette for Young Vampires.

what felt like skin the texture of cooked mushroom.

Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not ordinarily think of what they are doing as an exercise in grammar.

The confirmation of others: a sickness the entire race will die of.

Oddly enough, there's no name in the DSM for the compulsion to diagnose people.

Yet this rumble is cartoon thunder.

All the while moving the idea of home three more modulations deeper into unspinning space

Long answers need long time. And long time is exactly what's vanishing.