When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

Modesty is invisibility... Never forget it. To be seen - to be seen - is to be... penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.

A hot wind was blowing around my head, the strands of my hair lifting and swirling in it, like ink spilled in water.

As William Gibson says, the future is already here but it's lumpy. It's unevenly distributed. Some people are already living this, the ones on low-lying islands off the coast of India are being swept away, you know, it's already happening to some people. We happen to be very lucky so far.

To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole.

Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?

I didn't want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?