To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in the past.

You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.

The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.

It can be depressing when no one takes interest, and a lack of response makes the writer question why they’re writing at all. To have one’s writing rejected is like you, yourself, are being rejected.

I teach not by feeding the mind with data but by kindling the mind.

Because my life is empty window of nothingness punctuated by meaningless details of totally mundane non-events.

I want to be alone... with someone else who wants to be alone.

You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

It's sweet that I don't have to do my laundry.

I will stay in my bed!

I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.

You walk out in the street, we don't know if we're going to get across. It's a test.

TV's like whitewater rafting: Without rocks, there wouldn't be rapids, and it wouldn't be as much fun.