“From the backseat of the pick-up stepped Dr. Marconi. I tried to imagine the conversation the three of them had on the… — David Wong Communication Copy Share Image
“I tried to say something cool, wound up stammering something like, “WANNA YOU WANNA WEENIE ME?” The end kind of trailed off… — David Wong Horror Copy Share Image
“English should have a word for that feeling you get when you first wake up in a strange room and have no… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“I stopped at a red light, feeling foolish as always for stopping at an intersection at an hour when the streets are… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“SHUT UP. Both of you. You're coming with me." To me he said, "Put some pants on." "Fuck you. This is my… — David Wong Favorite-books Copy Share Image
“I should let you know that I had no idea how to play the guitar or any other musical instrument, and that… — David Wong Music making Copy Share Image
“You say you’re not a hero? Well, I’m going to tell you the best and the worst thing you’ve ever heard. Heroes… — David Wong Hero Copy Share Image
“My mind didn't clear. It had been clear before. Instead it muddled, suddenly ablaze with rioting factions of insecurities and dreams, a… — David Wong Dreams Copy Share Image
“here’s what’s going to happen: you’re going to die and you’re going to stand at the gates of judgment and you’re going… — David Wong Judgment Copy Share Image
“John, possessing a genetic defect that makes him walk toward danger, strode down toward where it looked like some cops were trying… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“The reality is that society had gotten too fast, noisy, and stressful for the human brain to process and everybody was ingesting… — David Wong Falling behind Copy Share Image
An ethic that emphasizes relationship and community can be concerned with protecting the individual's interests, but always with an eye to trying… — David Wong Autonomy Copy Share Image
“Everybody was circling around Robert, trying to get to the door while avoiding the infested, oozing mess and-holy shit is this song… — David Wong Song Copy Share Image
I argue for a relational conception of the person as a basis for an environmental ethic that can encourage us to preserve… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“...the amount of the universe a human can experience is statistically, like, zero percent. You’ve got this huge universe, trillions of trillions… — David Wong Empty space Copy Share Image
“I tried to be as inconspicuous as possible as I lay the sausage against my ear. Abruptly, my cell phone went dead.… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“I was going back and reading Marconi’s last book again, and there’s this part that always gets me. He points out that… — David Wong Books Copy Share Image
“I had gotten hungry for bratwurst and had been walking toward the entrance of one of the four McDonald's franchises in Undisclosed… — David Wong Copy Share Image
For Confucians, we are such thoroughly social beings that individual and social interests are not in the end regarded as fundamentally incompatible.… — David Wong Balance Copy Share Image
“Fred whispered, “Okay. If I don’t come back, and say they don’t got my body, like if Justin eats me or somethin’,… — David Wong Bigfoot Copy Share Image
“There are really only two kinds of monsters in the world, which you already know if you've been watching horror movies: Breeders… — David Wong Animals Copy Share Image
“If a spider walks onto your bed, you squish it. If a butterfly lands on your bed, you take a picture. Is… — David Wong Butterfly Copy Share Image
“I don't see it right now - maybe it was in a different book - but anyway, he says that when you… — David Wong Bible Copy Share Image
“I stared at him. I said, "Wait, really? Like there's an actual part of our brain that dictates how many people we… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“So you see, fear is just another manifestation of insecurity. What humans want most of all, is to be right. Even if… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“Keep driving," said a soft voice in my ear. "She will not bite if you keep driving." Fuck that. Fuck that idea… — David Wong Cursing Copy Share Image
“On his way out he turned and said, "And don't put a bunch of bullshit in my mouth, or get cute and… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“I reached for the knob. At the same moment it began to melt and transform, turning pink and finally taking the shape… — David Wong Time Copy Share Image
“That black pool of shame bubbled up in my head again. Then, a spark came along and set it alight. The choice… — David Wong Anger Copy Share Image
“I feel stretched out, like too little butter scraped over too much waffle. And then it all falls down into one of… — David Wong Humor Copy Share Image
I think that all moralities adequately serving the function of fostering social cooperation must contain a norm of reciprocity - a norm… — David Wong Copy Share Image
The Zhuangzi is very good on telling us how the nonhuman-made world can enter into who we are more deeply than at… — David Wong Environment Copy Share Image
“We walked past a mailbox shaped like a cow and saw a hand-painted sign on the front door that read THE MORRISON’S—ESTABLISHED… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“I mean, if they had just succumbed to passion and banged in my bed, I could understand that. I wouldn’t even be… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“We bless the ice, then we just have to somehow get all hundred or so of those monsters to go lick the… — David Wong English words Copy Share Image
“Anyway, it's two in the morning and we're taking turns pissing off of the tower (rather than going at the same time,… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“We simplify tens of millions of individuals down into simplistic stereotypes, so that they hold the space of only one individual in… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“Well, they never know they're ill, do they? You can't diagnose yourself with the same organ that has the disease, just like… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“I don’t know how they catch the birds. I know the Goliath Fucking Bird-Eating Spider can’t fly because if it could, it… — David Wong Spider Copy Share Image
“The air in the store was charged with panic—that bottled-up, impotent panic of a crowd that doesn’t know how to act on… — David Wong Panic Copy Share Image
