Religion is the last cultural barrier to gender equity.

Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.

I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!

I'm quite a private person and I like my work to do the talking.

But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.

I always felt like an outsider growing up. In school, I felt like I never fit in. But it didn't help when my mother, instead of buying me glue for school projects, would tell me to just use rice.

I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me

I'm by no means a perfect human being. I experience more than half of my life perpetuating darkness. That was because I was dropped in a place of darkness and expected to find a way out.

I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.

Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.

I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's when I became a poet.