Margaret Atwood

You take the first step, and to save yourself from the consequences, you take the next one. In times like ours, there are only two directions: up or plummet.

The cemetery has ... an inscription: 'Though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death I will Fear No Evil, For Thou Art With Me.' Yes, it does feel deceptively safer with two; but Thou is a slippery character. Every Thou I've known has had a way of going missing.

When you can't tell the difference between your own pleasure and your pain then you're an addict.

Soon it will be daybreak. Soon the day will break. I can't stop it from breaking in the same way it always does, and then from lying there broken; always the same day, which comes around again like clockwork. It begins with the day before the day before, and then the day before, and then it's the day itself. A Saturday. The breaking day. The day the butcher comes.

I am not mad because I'm a woman... I'm mad because you're an asshole.

Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.

You want your decisions taken away from you so you won’t be responsible for your own actions?

I was buying time. One is always buying something.

Amazing how quickly the past becomes idyllic.

Messy love is better than none,
I guess. I am no authority
on sane living.

Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.

The policemen's faces glisten too, they're holding themselves back, they love this, it's a ceremony, they're implementing a policy.

It’s better that way, and I am a great proponent of better. In the absence of best.

What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?

There is something reassuring about the toilets. Bodily functions at least remain democratic. Everybody shits.