I realized a capacity for not feeling lonely carried a very real price, which was the threat of feeling nothing at all. - Douglas Coupland

Brazilification: The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.

What do lesbians have against capitalized letters?
"Capitalization implies a hierarchy, that some letters are more special than others."

We live small lives on the periphery; we are marginalized and there's a great deal in which we choose not to participate. We wanted silence and we have that silence now. We arrived here speckled in sores and zits, our colons so tied in knots that we never thought we'd have a bowel movement again. Our systems had stopped working, jammed with the odor of copy machines, Wite-Out, the smell of bond paper, and the endless stress of pointless jobs done grudgingly to little applause. We had compulsions that made us confuse shopping with creativity, to take downers and assume that merely renting a video on a Saturday night was enough. But now that we live here in the desert, things are much, much better.