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.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

There's more private security in the United States than there are publicly funded forces, like police. What you don't want is a meld of government and commerce - you really want to keep those two things separate - because once you have that meld, you've got megacorruption, and you have no third force to whom you can say this stuff is poisoning our kids.

Life's not fair; why should I be?

Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.

I always thought eating was a ridiculous activity anyway. I'd get out of it myself if I could, though you've got to do it to stay alive, they tell me.

What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves -- our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies.