“It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.”
“Rich or poor, strong or weak, who among us has not begged God for a second chance?”
“There is a special grief felt by the children and grandchildren of those who were forbidden to read, forbidden to question or to know.”
“I almost gasp: he's said a forbidden word. Sterile. There is no such thing as a sterile man anymore, not officially. There are only women who are fruitful and women who are barren, that's the law.”
“People who read D.H. Lawrence suspect that the forbidden is not necessarily without its virtue, and so are easily persuaded that the forbidden and the virtuous are one and the same.”
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”