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Banks will fee you to death. If you bounce a check, the bank has a policy to re-post the check three more times to see if it will be paid. If it continues to bounce they charge a $30 overdraft every time. So, one bounced check will rack up $90 for the bank. Jonathan Raymond

Can't make your payments? No problem. The interest charges keep on coming. In fact, banks prefer it that way. More money for them. The government guarantees it. Jonathan Raymond

People get into debt head over heels because banks make it so easy to do so. Then the banks come along and act like these people who can't or won't pay their bills are the dregs of society. Jonathan Raymond

You can't know what you don't know. You can't know about things you have yet to discover. Jonathan Raymond

I always thought the point of life was something richer than that. Something full of great tragedy or comedy, reversal of fortune, ecstasy, that kind of thing. But no, contemporary urban theorists seem satisfied with the merely livable, which always sounds to me like the merely survivable, the not so bad. Jonathan Raymond

Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize. Jonathan Raymond

You can't know what the future holds, though you might conjecture on it, and if you're psychic, you might venture a guess. Jonathan Raymond

The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest imaginable is fair game. Jonathan Raymond

Writing fiction is the 'job' I try to keep at the center of things. The movie stuff has been a wonderful accident, though not entirely bizarre, either, as I have done some work in film before, and even directed a ridiculous, cable-access feature back in my 20s. Jonathan Raymond

Technology requires knowledge and expertise more than it requires money. Jonathan Raymond