It is the marketplace that calls most clearly for men to be softer, more narcissistic and receptive, and the new man is the result.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

For anyone worn down, The Impossible Will Take a Little While is a bracing double cappuccino.

Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic.

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.

No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.

Pride and ego makes a mockery of an apology. Humility wins forgiveness without question...so break 'yo'self'!

Just because the rose died on the vine, doesn't mean it lied to you when it was in bloom.

If love is what we search for.... Then why at the end of our search we only find pain?

Sometimes I found it hard to believe that the person in the mirror was me.

A man's home is no longer his castle; it is no longer a place away from urgent tasks because the telephone breaches the walls with imperious demands.

I'm starved." -Juli "How can you be starved? You just ate a huge bowl of popcorn." -Elspeth "Popcorn isn't food, it's popcorn." -Vicki

If you wait for luck to turn up, life becomes very boring.

Tim was dead. And he's always been a loser. I'd be damned if I was going to be the victim of a loser - or anyone else.

Tea is soothing. I wish to be tense.

I like to address the fears of my culture. I believe it's good to face the enemy, for the enemy is fear.