No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities.

I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.

The big talent is persistence.

Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.