A budget takes the fun out of money.

A quick smile is more seductive than a slinky dress.

Deconstruction: peering suspiciously at the text, I wait for it to make a slip and betray itself.

The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting.

When money disappears, we soon understand the power of absence.

Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.

Power makes gods. Virtue makes martyrs.