In which Rita Mae Brown has fantastic things to say, and Sam and I quote the Rolling Stones. Sort of.

"Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash."

"I became a lesbian out of devout Christian charity. All those women out there are praying for a man and I gave them my share."

"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they are okay, then it's you."

"Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace."

"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory."

"Love is the wild card of existence."

"Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth."

"Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going."

"No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody."

Rita Mae Brown. She's amazing. Just throwing that out there.

Quoting myself, while talking to Sam:

"You can't always get what you want. But you can always quote Mick Jagger."

This was followed by the profound suggestion that maybe, if you tried sometimes, you could get what you needed.

What will we think of next?