#fiction

I have seen many cases like N. during the five years I've been in practice. I sometimes picture these unfortunates as men and women being pecked to death by predatory birds. The birds are invisible - at least until a psychiatrist who is good, or lucky, or both, sprays them with his version of Luminol and shines the right light on them - but they are nevertheless very real. The wonder is that so many OCDs manage to live productive lives, just the same. They work, they eat (often not enough or too much, it's true), they go to movies, they make love to their girlfriends and boyfriends, their wives and husbands . . . and all the time those birds are there, clinging to them and pecking away little bits of flesh. ↗

— Stephen King

#horror #humor #life #ocd #death

Great fiction is the art of a soul. ↗

— Douglas Christiansen

#fiction #personal-philosophy #art

I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of the Perpetual Astonishment ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#humor #vonnegut #humor

The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manners to die. This, as you can see, they did. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#mock-biography #science-fiction #humor

I have been to the speed of God, sir...and I discommend it. ↗

— John Ringo

#humor #micheal-o-neil #science-fiction #humor

When the mind is free, magic happens. ↗

— C.G. Rousing

#humor #law-of-attraction #new-adult #new-thought #paranormal

Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#humor #nerdiness #ray-bradbury #science-fiction #humor

Paranoia is just a heightened state of awareness. I didn't say it, but I repeat it often enough. ↗