The mirror never sees itself. The reflection never is itself.

My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes.

Evolution crawls to imperfection. It ends in extinction.

I was pretty young when I saw the original Planet of the Apes, and for a time in the seventies, I was pretty obsessed with it.

It takes a while to get a movie together, and they dont start talking books until the movie is close to being finished.

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

Success is Never Ending, Failure Is Never Final.

Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.

I have seen a thousand times that Angels are human form, or men, for I have conversed with them as man to man, sometimes with one alone, sometimes with many in company.

Jesus is happy to come with us, as truth is happy to be spoken, as life to be lived, as light to be lit, as love is to be loved, as joy to be given, as peace to be spread.

I'm still an obsessive personality, and I still think I'm right, and I still believe my literary balls hang far lower than nearly anyone else's alive.

So I delegate a lot and I make my family come first, my husband and our kids.

We recall the joy and excitement of a nation that had found itself, the collective relief that we had stepped out of our restrictive past, and the expectant air of walking into a brighter future.

In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.

I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.