I'm not surprised he wants to challenge me here, where no one can protect me. He thinks I'm a weak woman. He thinks wrong.

I wish I could fly like that hawk, rising and falling with the still spaces in the air, far above all this sickness and death and evil.

A married man is a preoccupied man.

Responsibilities fall heaviest on those willing to take the load.

The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion

I'd rather have the influence than the power, and the influence to me is to build institutions of independence and democracy, to regain for Egypt prestige in education and science and technology.

Many peo­ple know the price of every­thing and the value of noth­ing

My first debate in high school--"Resolved: Girls are no good"--and I won!

Be happy with your stereotype. Asians - that's the stereotype I want. Being the smartest person in the world? You're the smartest, what are you complaining about? You know what I get? 'Wassup?

You can put these things into the hands of some Chinese and send him to Hong Kong and we'll have cleared chinks.

Although I was calm as a child, I had this restlessness about me–this need and hunger to create my own world. Poetry filled that void, and its words fed that vital necessity of ownership.

To me, the responsibility of an actor is to recreate humanity honestly. I never feel like an actor, I always look at it from a blue collar perspective.

There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly a brand new idea.

A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good.