Quotes by Lyda Morehouse

Almsgiving is a major tenet of Islam. Its also a kick in the pants of the highest order. Nothing is as cool as skimming off a couple of hundred thousand from some multinational corporation and handing it out to random strangers. Or writing a harmless little virus that makes credit counters forget to send a surcharge back to the bank after each purchase. Oh, sure, technically Im supposed to give away my own money, but whatever. Im sure Allah gets the spirit of what Im doing here.

Where was this written? I wondered. Where in the Talmud or the Koran or the Bible did it say, Lo, and Satan fetcheth the coffee for the Antichrist and her minions?

I never sleep. Like the dolphin and the spiny anteater, I dont experience REM. Unlike the dreamless mammals, Im a construct. I am a living program inside a vast network of electronic impulses known as the LINK. In that datastream Ive uncovered the meaning of another kind of dreaming--that of a fond hope or aspiration, a yearning, a desire, or a passion. This much I have. When I dream, I dream of Mecca.