Intellectuals always make a fuss about nothing.

Your lack of fear is based on your ignorance.

A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything.

Should could no longer feel grief. She was now like a Geiger counter that had been subjected to too much radiation, no longer capable of giving any reaction, noiselessly displaying a reading of zero.

Science and technology were the only keys to opening the door to the future, and people approached science with the faith and sincerity of elementary school students.

Everyone likes to reminisce, but not one wants to listen, and everyone feels annoyed when someone else tells a story.

In his mind, the city, as it awoke from its slumber, seemed to be built on quicksand. The stability was illusory.

I want to empower women.

I went deep inside myself. I had time to explore my beliefs and because of that I'm stronger. Bob Marley (March 1981)

I had no reason to want to copy anybody else. What I wanted to give audiences for the few minutes that I thought my career would last was something unique.

Shipping by sea produces 1/60 the emissions of shipping by air and about 1/5 that of trucking.

Liar's such a strong word. I prefer to think of it as me omitting some of the details" - Alex

People are trying to live freely outside of, or within a system that maybe for them on a day-to-day level isn't as free... I definitely think we're positively orientated.

Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through.

Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which I had passionately given myself.

I think over the years, being a mother, I've matured in so many ways.

Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.