Margaret Atwood

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

I think audiences sometimes mistakenly assume a quality performance comes from some great emotional disturbance rather than really intense concentration. Concentration and flow is what it's all about.