It's funny how heterosexuals have lives and the rest of us have "lifestyles."

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.

Freedom is necessary for honesty, honesty for integrity, integrity for power, power for creativity, and all of them for intimacy.

Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.

Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical orders.... Either we believe in patriarchy the rule of men over women - or we believe in equality.

We don't need someone to show us the ropes. We are the ones we've been waiting for. Deep inside us we know the feelings we need to guide us. Our task is to learn to trust our inner knowing.

The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.

I like to remind people what radical means -- 'at the root of things.' It shouldn't be considered a pejorative. There isn't a great name out of history you can pick who wasn't 'radical.

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.

…she had no resources for solitude…

When they confronted her like this, she felt like a delicate freaking time bomb just waiting for a time and a place to explode.

Let prayer be the key of the morning and the bolt at night.

Biotech 1.0 is slow, like a lab science, and Version 2.0 is more like computational sciences.

I believe locations should try to be and evoke the characters in a movie.

The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear.

That was in the past - we're in the future now.

Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.

D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became a scientist was not to have to think about that kind of thing.

When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.