'Youth is the time for loving, so poets always say.
The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.
The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.
I love the three-act theory. It works and works beautifully. But you don't necessarily have to structure a story that way: Cortazar and Borges wrote in different structural styles.
Lt. Commander Worf: [before blasting some Borg] Assimilate this!
Borg Queen: [to Picard] Watch your future's end.
I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.
It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.
A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.
It's not telepathy. It's not the Borg. But we created a new central nervous system made of two brains.
Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.
Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.
I come from a family of working women, my mum went to work two weeks after I was born - my parents had no money, there was no choice.
The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.
Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing.
Christians who believe in the Bible believe that it is their job to bring others the joy of salvation. Even if they're murdered, beaten to death, imprisoned - that's what you do for God.
They said that Seven was a former Borg who had been human and had been assimilated. She was regaining her humanity. I had no interest in this character.
My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke.
Every year I go to Broadway to see a musical - I like the music. I saw 'Mamma Mia;' I saw 'Les Miserables;' I saw 'Phantom of the Opera' like six, seven times.
In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the same biological, geographical, and social environment, and as determined by their past.
My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.
