dennis scharnberg

Psychopath: a secular term for an evil person.

Callista Ralph, Alphabet Soup.

“She spoiled him, all right. But you’re wrong—she did not love him. She detested him. That is why she spoiled him.”

Rhonda Carstairs, A Bad Case of the Whim-Whams and Other Stories.

“My fantasies—as you call them—would work out just fine, if I didn’t have to drop down to dirt zero every time upon fading out….”

Chadwick Graves, One Damned Thing After Another.

Mathematics does not depend on proof. The proofs come later.

Amanda Willcoxen, ed., The Literary and Philosophical Fragments of Gregory James Sallust.

A wheelbarrow filled with detritus is pretending to be a culture.

Octavius Kinder, A Sustainable Unhappiness.

“She has tattoos all over her backside, Katharine.”

“Meaning what?”

“Meaning she is bad news.”

Gladys Huizinga, Hard-Luck Dennis.

What he didn’t notice before—when he first examined the ad—was how profoundly happy the model appeared to be.

Benedict Elder, A Cosmopolitan Paradise.