This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.

Employing women as my primary protagonists has allowed me to step outside of myself, to distance myself from my own personality, far more easily than were I to look at events from a masculine perspective.

The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce the Middle Ages. History will have to wear size 48 shorts forever.

Now that I'm in love, I haven't a clue. Now that I'm in love, I'm completely stupid on the subject.

I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men.

Cultural institutions by and large share one primary objective: herd control. Even when ostensibly benign, their propensity for manipulation, compartmentalization, standardization and suppression of potentially disruptive behavior or ideas, has served to freeze the evolution of consciousness practically in its tracks.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.