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

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.

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.

Real artists, it seems to me, are those who don't repeat themselves.

Don't just believe, EXPECT!! Make preparations to succeed & be open to receive!

So who is cruel? You, cruel reader, you are.

It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.

You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.

I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.

Everything that is, was, and will be, eternally IS, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in their ideal Form.

There's more than one way to be a girl

A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is.

People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.

The reservist is twice the citizen.