The God of Small Things

The twins were too young to know that these were only history's henchmen. Sent to square the books and collect the dues from those who broke its laws. Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear--civilization's fear of nature, men's fear of women, power's fear of powerlessness. 

Man's subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue or deify. 

Men's Needs. 

~Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things

The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably...They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover's skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don't...In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn't. And yet you want to know again. 

~Arundhati Roy

Steal Like An Artist

Don't make excuses for not working--make things with the time, space, and materials you have, right now. 

~Austin Kleon