Any thought which is printed, either here or in the paper, without sub — George Alec Effinger

"The network was running a pre-recorded tape of a morning quiz show. The contestants looked vapid, the announcer cheerfully bored, the questions pointless, and the prizes undesirable."

"The night is this city’s single resource. Well, that and disease."

"We’re going to tell you about what it’s like, and what just might happen to you, and if you still want to be a writers we’ll know you’re insane."

"“Isolation is nice,” thought Brant as she drifted closer to sleep. “It’s a shame you can’t share it with anybody.”"

"“I have been waiting for a sign. I knew that if I waited here long enough my bird, that tarishawk that rests here each day, I knew that he would come. Our Mother said that if he flew from the right, then I would have good fortune. If he came from the left, my journey would be disastrous for me, and it would bear no positive fruits for you.” “And the hawk? Which way did it come? Did it come from the left?” Dore smiled once more; his smile was always the most cheerless aspect of him. “The hawk has not come at all,” he said."

"Government by emotion is identified with rule by tyranny."