“There are a lot of movies out there that I would hate to be paid to do, some real demeaning, real woman-denigrating stuff. It is up to women to change their roles. They are going to have to write the stuff and do it. And they will.”

Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.

Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn’t run in races! Come on!

Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?

For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.

Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn’t help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?

When people look only at the surface and that satisfies them and they think from that surface they see, that is to be truly blind.

Nature is neither reasonable nor just. Nature is exact.

Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

There’s never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together.

If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.

And we use it to read album reviews and watch kitten videos… not to put those two things in the same light!

I’m in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It’s fun.

The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.

One day I’m going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask what else I do, I feel like this is part of what I do….is to watch these birds.