[On her troubled relationships with her daughters:] You can acquire enemies. Why give birth to them?
It's weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It's like they're friends or something.
Transcendence and dissolution, always the same thing.
We do not know what is on the other side of the storm.
The war keeps taking pieces of me anyway. Makes the rest of me harder to hit.
The war could kill the faith in him, too, if he was not strong or careful enough. He could feel it fluttering within him sometimes, a bird in a cage of knives. Its own blood on its face and wings.
The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors.
Law stands mute in the midst of arms.
I'm always impressed by confidence, kindness and a sense of humour.
When everyone else is more comfortable remaining voiceless, Rather than fighting for humans that have had their rights stolen, I might not be the same, but that's not important. No freedom 'til we're equal, damn right I support it.