I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People.

What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the instrument of this dreadful will. You can see the will to power in bedrooms, kitchens, factories, unions and the borders of states. Listen to this and remember it. The nation state is merely human nature inflated to monstrous proportions. QED, nations are entities whose laws are written by violence. Thus it ever was, so ever shall it be.

As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.

The her that lived in her looked out through her eyes, through my eyes, and at the me that lives in me.

over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.