You can't imbibe someone's success by f*cking them.

I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: “It was the footnotes”.

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep

Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner.

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.

How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.

I'm not a girl. I'm a genius.

Let us dare to dream and shoot for the moon. Even if we don’t fetch the moon, a million stars may fill us with wonder. ("Happiness blowing in the wind")

Running from horrors doesn't help. The only way to deal with them is to meet them head-on.

You can kiss me if you like, " she said.Alex let go of her and turned away. "Thanks, Fiona, " he said. "But frankly I'd prefer to kiss the horse.

You know, I was at CBS News for 28 years. I may have run an unidentified source. Frankly, I don't remember.

If you want to be a person with a large vision, you must cultivate the habit of doing the little things well.

Never by hatred is hatred appeased, but it is appeased by kindness. This is an eternal truth.

Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.

This film [the Cell] certainly is not meant for the girls who sing along with my songs.

What tries to break us is endlessly fascinating to me. Joy is a whole different game to express.