All identification is for control and ownership.

Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.

If you don’t choose to plant, don’t dream to harvest. Ownership precedes production and production comes as a result of deliberate choice.

Any relationship that developed power dynamics, where she thought she had the right to dictate someone else’s behavior or have him dictate hers, was ended almost immediately. She could not stand the thought of hands...

There is no ownership. There is only stewardship.

Nobody ever washes a rental car.

In my mind, I could sense their roots under the soil, creeping in helical tangles of ever-increasing complexity outward and in all directions—out beyond the perimeter of the Helsingør Wood, out below Yami’s Under City,...

my” bookstore. That was what I called it. Did we call the things of our heart our own, whether they were or not?

Page 142: “When a spouse says to the alcoholic, “you need to go to AA,” that is obviously not true. The addict feels no need to do that at all, and isn’t. But when she...

No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host.

They had long ago found out that one could not be an owner unless one were cold.

Be a wife of whom he can make no complaint, Margaret. That is the best advice I can give to you. You will be his wife; that is to be his servant, his possession. He...

Nothing in the tangible word that isn’t living has any value beyond a dollar amount. Considering that dollars can only buy more tangible and inanimate objects, it would seem a far more worthwhile goal to...

That’s not in my yard.

The only things you can ever truly own cannot be bought with money.

Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.

The bank – the monster has to have profits all the time. It can’t wait. It’ll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can’t stay one size.

Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting...