"Children are receptive to talking about gender creativity, confirming the importance of the book as a means to instigate this dialogue at an early age."

“I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star.”

Source : "Marina Diamandis Mines the Future". Interview with Alex Chapman, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 26, 2012.

“People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don’t deserve them, or that they’ll be unable to achieve them. We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren’t, or of treasures that might have been found but were forever hidden in the sands. Because, when these things happen, we suffer terribly.”

“The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds.”

“When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.”

“I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.”

Source : "Chinese Modern Literature Laureate Expected to Become Centenarian". en.people.cn. August 13, 2001.

“Darwinism by itself did not produce the Holocaust, but without Darwinism neither Hitler nor his Nazi followers would have had the necessary scientific underpinnings to convince themselves and their collaborators that one of the world's greatest atrocities was really morally praiseworthy.”

“What did we go to war for, if not to protect our property?”

“You do not have to remain stuck in your grief forever when you realize that your loved ones who have passed continue on with you, side-by-side with you, in your lives, even though they have their own life going on across the veil.”