Various Quotes

Rio Hondo College is caught between a dump and a graveyard.  That means something.  Things like that aren't accidents.

If your boyfriend or husband is into Playboy, get down on your knees and thank them.  There are much worse, horrifying sick things out there---like women being put through meat grinders.  Playboy is so tame and safe. 

Years ago, I would go home from work at night and sit at my desk with a gun.  I would try to think of a reason not to kill myself.   Teaching was the only thing keeping me going.

Every intelligent, creative person has contemplated suicide in their lives.  If suicide is so wrong, why have some of the most intelligent, greatest minds have killed themselves.  We praise Hemingway's writings and say he's a genius, but because he killed himself we dismiss it because we think it's wrong.  He didn't think it was wrong.  He thought it was the most intelligent thing to do. 

This is not me.  What you see is a performance.  In my office, I'm a different person.  We all perform different roles.  Be careful about mixing them up.  Tom Robbins has written some amazing, beautiful novels about women, with an insight that most men don't have.  And women would line up to fuck him because they assume he's just as empathetic and insightful as his novels.  Never mix up the art work with the person.  Tom Robbins could be a huge asshole.  You don't know.  He is not his novels.