We were on welfare when we were kids. Thanks for reminding me of that.

Real magic can never be made by offering someone else’s liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.

When I was alive, I believed — as you do — that time was at least as real and solid as myself, and probably more so. I said ‘one o’clock’ as though I could see...

Everyone died in solitude, after all. A simple enough truth. A truth no one need fear. The spirits waited before they cast judgement upon a soul, waited for that soul—in its dying isolation—to set judgement...

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have...

We were not in the habit of seeking their advice.”Phaethon said nothing, but he marveled at the shortsightedness of the Second Oecumene engineers. It should be obvious that anyone who makes a self-aware machine, by...

Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.