Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

Crisis can be an addiction as powerful as any other.

Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self.

I do believe deeply that all human beings, male and female, are sexual beings, most likely bisexual beings channeled this way and that by cultures terrified of boundary crossings without passports stamped gay or straight.

Hate generalizes; love specifies. Or: The movements of hatred are toward generalization; love's movements are toward specification.

I still gasp at the revealing lingo for weapons: erector launchers, thrust ratios; my teeth grind reflexively when Dubya sputters Eye-Rack and Eye-Ran have 'nookyular capabacity.

Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.