"The operating management, providing as it does for the care of near thirty thousand miles of railway, is far more important than that for construction in which there is comparatively little doing."

“I've actually found that most of my jobs have been in sci-fi. I realized it because sci-fi has the biggest fan following. Every time I do a play in London all these sci-fi fans come out. They ask me to sign things from all these little projects that I did. I hadn't even made the connection. It doesn't always have a spaceship and guns; sci-fi has been projected on in someway. I did Never Let Me Go, which is sort of Star Trek-y. It's about the future and training humans. It's sci-fi too. It's such a broad umbrella.”

“Ask what you can do for influencers, not what influencers can do for you - develop relationships!”

“The point is, I'm weird, but I never felt weird.”

Source : Interview with Spin, thechilisource.com. December 1991.

“I was assigned a Taliban "minder" who followed me everywhere. But he couldn't follow me into homes where there were women, so I took photos inside people's homes.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com

“A writer must say yes to life.”

“Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.”

“We focus a lot on the quality of experience, speed, reliability. It’s not sexy from a lot of people’s perspective, it’s not glitzy in the feature set, but it’s what people come to rely on.”

“To leave a place, you'd best leave everything behind; all your possessions, including memory. Traveling's not as easy as it's made out to be.”

Source : Virginia Hamilton (2003). “M. C. Higgins, the Great”, p.44, Simon and Schuster