I was unfair to him, of course, but where would I have been without unfairness? In thrall, in harness. Young women need unfairness, it's one of their few defenses. They need their callousness, they need their ignorance. They walk in the dark, along the edges of high cliffs, humming to themselves, thinking themselves invulnerable.

The facts of this world seen clearly are seen through tears.

I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely.

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.

You meet the same people on the way down that you meet on the way up, but you're going the other way.

People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.

Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain.