There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.

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.

Just that I have loved you, even when I was nothing and no one to you, when you didn’t know my name and barely knew my face.- Leo

For all men are equal at the moment of death and who are we to judge them when a much greater judge awaits?

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.

Don't try too hard to be something you're not.

When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. You do not need it anymore. Presence is the key. Now is the key.

The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Life is progressive, no matter what our intentions.

The greatest artists always come round to simplicity.

My songs are cinematic so they seem to reference a glamorous era or fetishize certain lifestyles, but that's not my aim.

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.