Don't let them push you around, stick up for yourself.

Sugar Cookies would probably rate a 'hard-R' today, but six years ago it got an X, made a brief appearance on the 42nd Street porno circuit, and disappeared without a trace.

She was, in addition, always extremely careful to share with the friends in her Support System her belief that it would be whiny and pathetic to play what she derisively called the Blame Game and blame her constant and indescribable adult pain on their parents' traumatic divorce or their cynical use of her.

The Magus should not, therefore, live exclusively in his laboratory, amidst his Athanor, his elixirs, and his pantacles. […] A magical operation should invariably be followed by a rest of equal duration and an analoguous diversion, but one contrary in its object.