"As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable."

“Most people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people they think they're better than.”

Source : Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

“Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.”

“Wherever there's a system, there's a racket to beat it.”

“For the past 25 years as an adoption attorney, I have witnessed the extraordinary courage and compassion of women - from age 14 to 40 - facing unplanned pregnancy. Not once did I believe that the government should interfere with their personal and private decision.”

Source : "The Case for Contraception" by Rep. Ann McLane Kuster, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2012.

“My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.”

“The dead don't bear a grudge nor seek a blessing. The dead don't rest uneasy. Only the living.”

Source : Margaret Laurence (2016). “The Stone Angel”, p.165, Head of Zeus

“Fatigue makes cowards of us all.”

“I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.”