If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary..

Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck..

Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?.

A suicide is both a rebuke to the living and a puzzle that defies them to solve it. Like a poem, suicide is finished and refuses to answer questions ….

Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it..

You can pretty much trace when the big individual indebtedness kicked in, and it was when the credit card became generally available..

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people..

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space..

Richard liked to say he picked things up for a song, which was odd, because he never sang. He never even whistled. He was not a musical person..

The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free..

Where do the words go when we have said them?.

As God contains all good things, He must also contain a sense of playfulness -- a gift he has shared with Creatures other than ourselves, as witness ….

Laughter may instruct but it may also conceal, defending the joker against anger and retaliation: a game is only a game..

A non-event ... is better to write about than an event, because with a non-event you can make up the meaning yourself, it means whatever you say it m….

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now..

This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea..

The film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth] opens with an Albanian blood feud and goes on to delve into, for instance, prison systems, und….

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I ….

Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another..

You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you.

it's doors I'm afraid of because I can't see through them, its the door opening by itself in the wind I'm afraid of..