I certainly feel that you can be woman and not have children, but I don't think society feels that.

The dilemma of our lives is that boys can do everything and girls can do very little.

A lot of my effort is to get people to talk about gender in a new way and to see that sexism and gender issues are so ingrained in us.

No, the safest thing is to become an island. To make your house a citadel against all the garbage and ugliness in the world. How else can you be sure of anything?

When it has finished saying it, it no longer is. The longer it is in saying it, the more it can say it at length, the more slowly it melts, the better quality it is.

I love cars, I have two classic cars of my own.

There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment.

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.

I trust the people who are working with me. I delegate.

I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'

An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.

I get very sad when I think about Vietnam where there seems to be no choice but violence. This violence goes on for centuries perpetuating itself.