Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator.

They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed.

In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g.

Even their insistence on educating their children, the last reflex of any exploited group before it sank into submission, marked the end of their resistance.

He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs."One rule in life", he murmured to himself. "If you can smell garlic, everything is all right".

this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence.

We are all dust passing through the air, the difference is, some are flying high in the sky, while others are flying low. But eventually, we all settle on the same ground.

Cease distracting your mind of things with little substance.

Maxim 27: Don't be afraid to be the first to resort to violence.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

All of my books really do look at that to degrees of difference. Technically, I do enjoy the flashback! But not just for informational material.

Like the dog who barks at the train, I bark not because I expect the train to stop, but because I am a dog.

You can't plow a field simply by turning it over in your mind.

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.

I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.