I've never denied my sexual orientation. I just don't make a point of it. It isn't what I do. Clearly, I'm known for the work I've done on trade and Social Security.

I do favor guest workers, H1B visas and student visas.

I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.

I was heavily influenced by Andy Kaufman and Steven Wright.

How much better might human communication be if words were as precious as diamonds? If each of us were allotted only 100 words per day?

I had many decades of me time and now I just don't have that anymore. There are days when I rail against it.

Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.

All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny.

I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.

Even someday when we disappear... ...and new Sailor Senshis are born... Sailor Moon, you will always be Invincible. The most beautiful shining star.

Under every deep a lower deep opens.

Women always think you need a man, you need a father, as if they'd be the slightest use. Men are a dead weight, they're clumsy and maladjusted.