But simply someone who broke the law, came here, say, 'I'll give you citizenship now,' that I don't think is going to happen.

Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments.

If you need food stamps, you should meet the criteria.

The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.

Don't believe the dark whisperings that invite you to walk backward. At any time in your life, you have the power to turn forward.

Our imagination is bigger than this universe.

Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.

My husband jokes that I'll invite people over for dinner and he won't know who they are or where I met them. But in my work world, I've never really been tempted to tell too much of my story.

An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive.

I guess I write four or five hours a day, but I do it seven days a week. It's very disciplined, yes, but it's joy for me.

I love walking around and grabbing coffee and sitting in a park and people watching… I love Greenwich Village.

No one's ever gotten better by practicing less.

Extraterrestrial intelligence could have sent DNA-seed packets out through space to plant life on hospitable planets such as earth.