Thomas M. Disch

"All the things that happen and seem so important at the time, and yet you forget them, one after another."

"There was nothing like shared meals, so the experts at IBM claimed, for overcoming one's basic disbelief in the existence of other people."

"Boz, who had no patience with Science, always confused north and south."

"The Prescient Science Fiction of Thomas M. Disch" in The Millions"

"He especially liked ads for shampoos and hair coloring. The women in them seemed to regard their hair as independent, capricious entities, whom they must placate and provide with food."

"Jobs are like going to church: it’s nice once or twice a year to sing along and eat something and all that, but unless you really believe there’s something holy going on, it gets to be a drag going in…"

"...there, strung out under the cornice of the building, was the motto, which he had never noticed before, of the Federal Communications Agency:"

"Religious faith often finds itself at odds with story-telling. Puritans ban acting companies. Islam is uneasy about all forms of representation. And why? Because the experience of walking out of the t…"