We don't have any sailors in Australia, we have rowers.

We don't have any sailors in Australia, we have rowers.

When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.

In the legislative arena, especially when the country is closely divided, compromises tend to be the rule the day. But when judges rule this or that policy unconstitutional, there's little room for compromise: One side must win, the other must lose.

Opportunity doesn't make appointments, you have to be ready when it arrives.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless it is distorted and untrue if it puts its primary focus on unnatural conditions rather than on those vast forces not of mans making that shape and channel the nature and direction of life.

Art is a continuum.

Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

I hate being bored when I read a story. Even a well-trod theme can be made fresh by a different perspective or fresh writing.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.

It is with this as with religion: one usually believes what he has been taught.

When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went home and sat down to write, and the material for the book just came flooding into my hands.

Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

I like to read first thing in the morning. I'm addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business books, because I feel like I should figure out how to be a real businessman before someone figures out that I'm not one. I really enjoy reading classics as well, which I try to work in once every two months.

I have strong feelings about gun control. If theres a gun around I want to be controlling it.

I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.

When I moved to New York, I was wide-eyed. I was nice to everyone, which comedians hate.

If you continue to work hard, let that be the fuel to your fire.

We were spending American blood and treasure to liberate the people of Afghanistan from one of the most brutal regimes on the face of the earth. That we would not use that moment to press for women's rights seems to me unthinkable.

My God, he looks like he's beating a chicken.

Comfort kills ambition. Get uncomfortable and get used to it in your pursuit of your goals and dreams.

Back in 2004, Kellie Overbey handed me her play 'Girl Talk' to read. I fell in love with her brutally delicious humor and the fearlessly deft way in which she drew her characters. They jumped off the page and begged me to give them a space in which to stomp around.

I go out and walk around the yard. Sometimes I'll cut grass.

In terms of the arguments, I think the pro-Leave campaign is winning them all.