The interesting thing about the religious component, for me, is that Jesus hardly mentions sex at all. He's pretty interested in the poor, he's pretty interested in selling your worldly goods and storing up riches in heaven. However, religious fundamentalists have made it all about sex, and that's like saying, "Look at the sex and we're just not going to talk about what you may be doing in a financial way that is sinful."

Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea.

The trickle-down theory of economics has it that it's good for rich people to get even richer because some of their wealth will trickle own, through their no doubt lavish spending, upon those who stand below them on the economic ladder. Notice that the metaphor is not that of a gushing waterfall but of a leaking tap: even the most optimistic endorsers of this concept do not picture very much real flow, as their language reveals" pg. 102.

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

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

Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.