I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.

A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.

If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?

That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world.

It may be the first in what I trust will be a rapidly growing and influential genre--the novel designed on purpose to be excludedfrom the Booker short-list.

Reciprocity of sensation is not possible because to share is to be robbed.

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.