I wear the word victim like a badge of honor — my own purple heart. I see what others do more than I see what I'm capable of.

I understand true life doesn't happen when I constantly gaze backwards, mulling over all the injustices others have done or I have done to others.

What else has kept any of us going, but love of someone or the memory of that love?

Justice? -You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

In durance vile here must I wake and weep And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.

I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.

Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely.

This man [ Donald Trump] won in an electoral landslide.

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Faith is a function of the heart.

Pink Friday is a celebration of my life at this moment; it is a reflection of me as a creator, and an expression of me as a woman.