To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. She is living selflessly, she finds a hole in the stone wall and on the other side of the wall, a voice. The voice comes through darkness and has no face. This voice becomes her mirror.

Why do men feel threatened by women?

I used to act in college, but always comedy. Didn't do [William] Shakespeare - did Ben Jonson.

Plague has hung over human history. The biggest human extinction was after 1492 in North and South America when the mortality rate was 95 per cent, which is enormous. But again, I'm actually giving you grounds for optimism: There were enough to continue. The five per cent who made it through are what you need to survive a bottleneck, which we have been through before.

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

Toast is me. I am toast.

A word after a word after a word is power.