Lately I feel that I'm living in a badly written, badly directed foreign movie that's running on late-night TV in black-and-white with lots of static… - Sheri S. Tepper

I’ll tell you, nothing is so dangerous as ambition in a man who cares not who stands in his way.

"We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose."
"Is that a lie?"
"It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth."

You're pro-life, Dink commented.
Briess widened the slit of his mouth into an excruciating smile. No, my friend, I'm merely anti-woman. I was born in the wrong system. Once female life expectancy exceeded that of men in the U.S., it was obvious we were doing something wrong.