I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future.

Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I will be in twenty years

In 2030 we will be ageless and everyone will have an excellent chance to live forever. 2030 is a dream and a goal.

I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future

belief is the death of intelligence.

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.

I love Buster Keaton and I love physical comedy when it's done in an emotionally understated way. I just like to play it, and I need the attention.

It is impossible for an abortion clinic to have a waiting list of more than nine months.

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

The womb is like an altar, it's the place where God continually comes into the world and does what only God can do...create.

I actually love my natural hair when it's in a twist out and it's been slept on for five days and revived by the steam of the shower.

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that And manage it against despairing thoughts.