Money isn't the only thing that must flow and circulate in order to have good value: good turns and gifts must flow and circulate . . . for any social system to remain in balance.

Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis, ' she says. 'Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run...

Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.

Mindless violence against the undead?” said Zzzap. “Count me in.

I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.

Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.

It is blasphemy if you pray before God while you are full of anger.

I try to sing whatever the music makes me feel. And we play so much music from the other records at shows that I hope no one will miss the old style too much.

Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune.

I don't need a good skate to make everything OK.

If you're not connected emotionally to a story, then you're dead. You're really just opening the door for people to lose interest and their minds to wander, for them to start picking it apart.

You never know what's going on in somebody's mind. There's a lot of pressure on someone growing up. You have to watch it.