She has a housewife's hand; but that's no matter: I say she never did invent this letter; This is a man's invention and his hand.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.

Beggars invention and makes fancy lame.

[But he doesn't like her proclamation, also made in the documentary about her 2004 Re-Invention tour, that] most priests are gay. ... We're glad to see she is no longer with us. Jews will have to make up their own mind about whether they're going to welcome her. Lots of them don't want to.

If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even now I cannot understand it! I use it every day, I transact half my correspondence by means of it, but I don’t understand it. Think of that little stretched disk of iron at the end of a wire repeating in your ear not only sounds, but words—not only words, but all the most delicate and elusive inflections and nuances of tone which separate one human voice from another!