"It's 4:58 on Friday afternoon. Do you know where your margarita is?"

“Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history.”

“Just as Bowie, Zeppelin, etc., became rock stars by remaking themselves in the image of the California girls, the Go-Gos became rock stars by pretending to be the Buzzcocks and the Sex Pistols. Jane Wiedlin always said her biggest influence was growing up in L.A. as a Bowie girl.”

“My life was very Japanese.”

“The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.”

“Some people have no respect whether you are with your family or not. That's the hardest part. I was shopping in a grocery store in Seattle looking for stuff for Nicholas. This guy kept following me with his cell phone video on.”

Source : "Joe Montana finds empty nest in San Francisco". Interview with Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. July 6, 2010.

“Does the cosmos contain keys for opening my diving bell? A subway line with no terminus? A currency strong enough to buy my freedom back? We must keep looking.”

“Love is not a matter of getting connected. It is a matter of seeing that we already ARE connected within an intricate web of relationships that extends throughout all life. It is a realization of 'no boundary' -- that we are all made of the same stuff, riding through time on the same spaceship, faced with the same problems in the world, the same hopes and fears. It is a connection at the core, that makes irrelevant skin color, age, sex, looks or money.”

“Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.”

Source : Jane Rule (2013). “Outlander: Short Stories and Essays”, p.247, Open Road Media