Thomas M. Disch

“In short, Daniel was once again a member of a family. Viewed from without they were a strange enough family: a rattling,…

— Thomas M. Disch

But the toaster was quite satisfied with itself, thank you. Though it knew from magazines that there were toasters who could toast…

— Thomas M. Disch

“Gender and the complications it gives rise to simply aren't relevant to the lives appliances lead.”

— Thomas M. Disch

“The problem is that we've got a sense of humor and (Republicans have) got guns. Will we die laughing?”

— Thomas M. Disch

“This is my journal. I can be candid here. Candidly, I could not be more miserable.”

— Thomas M. Disch

“What to Accept The fact of mountains. The actuality Of any stone — by kicking, if necessary. The need to ignore stupid…

— Thomas M. Disch

A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.

— Thomas M. Disch

Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements…

— Thomas M. Disch

“(Shoddiness is) the nature of human life. It takes an exertion to be indifferent to these things, but it's an exertion worth…

— Thomas M. Disch

“When one is experiencing failure, it is hard to resist the comfort of paranoia.”

— Thomas M. Disch

“The toaster (lacking real bread) would pretend to make two crispy slices of toast. Or, if the day seemed special in some…

— Thomas M. Disch

Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers.

— Thomas M. Disch

Thought is a disease of the brain. The mind defends itself against the degenerative process of creativity; it begins to jell; notions…

— Thomas M. Disch

Sameness is what marketers want us to want.

— Thomas M. Disch

Sometimes the whole world is mud luscious and puddle wonderful

— Thomas M. Disch

“The end of the world. Let me tell you about the end of the world. It happened fifty years ago. Maybe a…

— Thomas M. Disch

All children... feel a demonic sympathy with those things that cause disorder in the grown-up world.

— Thomas M. Disch

The distances between the stars seem brief by contrast to the distances between each of us and his fellows.

— Thomas M. Disch

“But before any of the small appliances who may be listening to this tale should begin to think that they might do…

— Thomas M. Disch

Let me tell you about the end of the world. It happened fifty years ago. Maybe a hundred. And since then it's…

— Thomas M. Disch

“So, without saying anything to the others, it made its way to the farthest corner of the meadow and began to toast…

— Thomas M. Disch

Creativeness is finding patterns where none exist.

— Thomas M. Disch

The forest stretched on seemingly forever with the most monotonous predictability, each tree just like the next - trunk, branches, leaves; trunk,…

— Thomas M. Disch

Genius is an infinite capacity for pain.

— Thomas M. Disch

America is a nation of liars, and for that reason science fiction has a special claim to be our national literature, as…

— Thomas M. Disch