Reading ... changes you. You aren't the same person after you've read a particular book as you were before, and you will read the next book, unless both are Harlequin Romances, in a slightly different way.

So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.

Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into a cathedral and look at the decorations of early Christianity, there are vines, animals, creatures and birds thriving all over the stonework.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.