Those must have all been important to me once. What I am now grew from that. A former self is a fool, an insufferable ass, but he's still human, you'd no more turn him out than you'd turn out any kind of cripple, would you?

She watches Marvy's face as he pays Monika, watches him in this primal American act, paying, more deeply himself than when coming, or asleep, or maybe even dyi…

It's a giant factory-state here, a City of the Future full of extrapolated 1930's swoop-facaded and balconied skyscrapers, lean chrome caryatids with bobbed ha…

'Personal density,' Kurt Mondaugen in his Peenemunde office not too many steps away from here, enunciating the Law which will one day bear his name, 'is direct…

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

Everywhere I am folded, there I am a lie.

Your own nature will triumph. We are all born with our natures... And I think back over my life and I realize that my own nature -the core me- essentially hasn…