George Alec Effinger

"I liked being the screwer rather than the screwee."

"The party had demanded this; Weintraub was to be a scapegoat, the local conspirator in the Reichstag tragedy. “I suppose I can’t doubt them,” he thought, as his heart pounded, as his mouth grew dry, a…"

"I looked good, faster than light with a little money in my pocket. You know what I mean. I was the same as always: the clothes looked first-rate. That was fine, because most people only look at the cl…"

"I told you it was dirty. When you wander into the highest level of international affairs, it’s almost always dirty."

"Now we have the prospect of a religious war on our hands, with the attendant proliferation of “heresies” and two separate but equal inquisitions."

"It didn’t feel, at that moment, like I was getting into something over my head. It never does, before you take the leap."

"After all, our laws only reflect the definitions of the majority. When those ideas change, the laws change."

"“The male sexual drive is supposed to fall off during moments of stress,” he thought. “It is comforting sometimes to know that I must be abnormal. Especially in a situation like this. Perpetual lust h…"