Under the old system - which is now so archaic that a lot of people can't remember it - if you wanted money you had to go to the bank and take the money out in cash form, and you couldn't take out money that you didn't have. But with the credit card you can spend money you don't have, and that is just so tempting.

Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.

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."

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.

If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.