[On cloning sheep:] Oh great, just what we need - more sheep.

A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.

Moms Mabley said you have to say good things about the dead. I say, 'He's dead. Good.'

I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.

When women go off together we call it separatism. When men go off together we call it Congress.

I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.

The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.

Whenever a woman describes herself as a 'post-feminist' I picture women lashed to posts. Joan of Arc was an early post-feminist.

Teaching is performance art.

My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.

So few people voted in the elections [of 1996] that the ones who did were called activists.

Things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.

We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.

I haven't seen too many images that have impressed me!

Sometimes, the shortest path between two points is serpentine.

Una's face was an unbroken block of calculation, saving where, upon her upper lip, a little down of hair fluttered. Yet it gave one an uncanny feeling. It made one think of a tassel on a hammer.

A fervently believed idea, even if wrong, dies hard.

It's sad that the U.S. government doesn't fund risky research anymore.

There is only one death, so let it be in the path of Allah

The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights.

By happy chance we saw A twofold image: on a grassy bank A snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood Another and the same!