"I bought a telephone, not a lifestyle."

--the girlfriend's dad

"Make no mistake about it, Clot: I'm a real writer. I don't have the least intention of being happy, naturally."

--Raphael Reig, Blood on the Saddle

"If you were born with a vagina, your primary obligation from the onset of adolescence and well into adulthood will be to make yourself pretty for heterosexual men's pleasure. Not even just the ones you'd actually want to have a conversation with, let alone sex with--all of them."

--Kate Harding, "How Do You Fuck a Fat Woman?"

"Food is for the weak!"

--Kate Harding and Marianne Kirby, Lessons from the Fat-O-Sphere

"Too many women substitute diet talk for real conversation. They use it to bond, but it is a superficial bond that undermines the chance of any real connection. It pretends to align women as sisters working toward a common goal, but it really turns them into competitors."

--Kate Harding and Marianne Kirby, Lessons from the Fat-O-Sphere

"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."

--John Kenneth Galbraith

"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist as one grows up."

--Pablo Picasso

"But it's the harsh reality, as of 2009. No jet-packs, no hover cars, no diets that work."

--Kate Harding and Marianne Kirby, Lessons from the Fat-O-Sphere

"Any unwanted behavior should be dealt with in kind and loving manner. For this reason, I use a method called 'corporal cuddling.'"

--Paul, "An Engineer's Guide to Cats"

"So the question is, which boulder are you going to choose to roll? The "must lose weight" boulder or the "fuck you, I will boldly, defiantly accept the body I've got and live in it" boulder?

--Kate Harding, "How Do You Fuck a Fat Woman?"

"It has never surprised me that God gave the world a little tilt at the same time He set it spinning; so much that goes on here mimics that tilt."

--Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

"Jane leaned back against the counter and stared at the ceiling. At the traditional location of God, no matter what the planet."

--C. J. Cherryh, Cyteen: The Betrayal