Many of us have had that experience of being in love with someone and then they end up being your enemy and there's a stranger in your bed.

Men want to destroy the women: you've become bigger than me, people love you more, you have a public platform, that's my space you're taking up. I can't just divorce you, I have to destroy you.

The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that are not conforming and will not be about pleasing other people.

People don't give up power and privilege out of the goodness of their hearts.

We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.

The fight against unfair scheduling is like the fight for a regulated work day - it's people fighting for reasonable conditions at work and to have a life, so you can have some leisure.

The goal of the first International May Day celebrations was the eight-hour working day.

For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.

Eleanor Marx was a pragmatic person of actions and deeds and she was an organizer.

When you're writing, you're making decisions about compression and the shape of a life, which are very similar to how we experience our inner consciousness.

A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always bang up against history.

The signature of our eyes, in other words, the way we look never changes even at the age of hundred!

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

If you want to prevent abortions, you make sure everyone has health care, a high school education and birth control. Not the exact opposite.

She a patient waitin in my room

Consciousness, like a complex system of software, has thousands of levels of nested, self-accessing subroutines

My experience with Sondheim has been nothing but glorious, especially for a guy who doesn't sing.

I do understand that going out and promoting the movie is a big responsibility, and part of the reason they give me the job in the first place.

All of it is God, and there is nothing else.

I don't know what kind of egomaniac is sitting at home thinking about the impact they have had on the culture. It's not something I actually think about until it comes up.

How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.