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

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.

The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.'

A satellite has no conscience.

Why I love acting is that it's totally subjective and I like that. I like that.

The gifts of the Holy Spirit are testimony, faith, knowledge, wisdom, revelations, miracles, healing, and charity, to name but a few.

I'm off for a quiet pint - followed by fifteen noisy ones.

You have to be interested. If you're not interested, you can't be interesting.

Direction determines destination.

Acting is still fun. It's still not even a career for me. I think the second it becomes a career is when I should stop.

In the state of Alabama we have a significant number of illegal aliens that are leaving our state as occurred in Arizona after they got tough on illegal aliens.

It's not my fault that people don't know me. I'm going to speak my mind, no matter what the consequences are.