“For what angry God arching backward over the world. his anus spitting fire, the fetid breath of his mouth propelling blood-colored clouds, his navel full of burnt pitch and singed feathers, have we given our eyes, our teeth, our eyeglasses, bales of our our hair, and the magic of our worthless gold?”

“The earth is God's book but in our blindness, we have obliterated letters so we may say God has abandoned us. It is we who are illiterate.”

“All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.”

“Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life. ”

“Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked.With your own voice,' he said.”

“Sometimes, niña, our greatest gifts grow from what we are not given.”

“Beware of the man who denounces woman writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.”