"Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century."

"I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web."

"As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade."

"I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground."

"If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself."