When someone is HIV-positive and his partner says, I want to have sexual relations with you, he doesn't have to do that. But when he does, he has to use a condom.

Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.

Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia.

Our theology is still in a time of crisis, and I think this will last for some years more.

At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point.

I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs.

Don’t sleep too much. If you sleep 3 hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.

Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose.

Let us all reaffirm our commitment to improving the well- being of families throughout the world.

In order to achieve that end goal of equality it is a very gendered oppression primarily affecting women that needs to be tackled.

But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.

There are a lot of female directors in Lebanon but we can't really talk about a true film industry, it's still very small. But we do have a few female directors.

I'm a big believer in debate and difference of opinion.

I think that we've had an invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs and who were historically part of the Arab community.

The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.