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Conflict of the sexes is not a disease; it is an unavoidable byproduct like the smoke and water from a fire.
Queen of Angels (1990)
The feedback loop is half of the secret of existence.
Queen of Angels (1990)
What he liked he despised for being likable.
Queen of Angels (1990)
You can find nearly anything human in Los Angeles, good and bad. I don’t think it would be workable as a city without mental therapy.
Queen of Angels (1990)
More and more I am nothing without someone. To be alone is to be in bad company.
Queen of Angels (1990)
Eccentricity is more than affectation to a poet. It’s a necessity.
Queen of Angels (1990)
He wondered for a moment if they had stumbled onto something truly supernatural but dismissed that with a disgusted shudder.
Queen of Angels (1990)
Ours is an age of social anger.
Queen of Angels (1990)
“From what we’ve been told, he wasn’t very humble, was he, Mr. Lascal?”
Lascal shook his head. “I don’t know many writers who are.”
Queen of Angels (1990)
We have arisen as the result of purely natural processes; one of the great achievements of modern science has been the elimination of God or others teleologisms him as a necessity from our explanations.
Queen of Angels (1990)
I explored new territory and described it. I did not create it. Don’t blame the conduit for the lightning.
Queen of Angels (1990)
Poetry is dead and buried in a world of growing LitVid and illiteracy, vidiocy I’ve heard it called. Being dead, poetry has enormous freedom; being ignored, it can blossom like a rose in a manure heap. Poetry is risen. Poetry is the messiah of literature but the angel has not yet told anybody it is risen.
Queen of Angels (1990)
Some believe a superior being has guided humans. I see no compelling evidence for this. The human wish for guidance, for confirmation and external support, is an underlying theme in all they do and say, however. Very few stray far from this most fundamental of wishes: that they might have immortal and omniscient parents.
Queen of Angels (1990)