The lowly have small ambitions, and are satisfied with small indulgences. They need not get fair treatment. They need only think that they do...

Power is a bloody mirage. The closer you seem to get the further away it is

If one assumes, as I do, that battery is caused by the belief permeating this culture that hierarchical rule and coercive authority are natural, then all our relationships tend to be based on power and domination, and thus all forms of battery are linked.

Surprise is like virginity. You only get the one chance at using it, and that normally turns out a crushing disappointment

One act presses upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then we look up and find... this.

Life is a series of things we would rather not do.