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Besides inquiries as to our general well-being, the first thing asked about us, in our first seconds of being alive, is whether we're a boy or girl. Our first passport through this world is our genitals.

We arrived the way most emigrant families did. My father came first, and the rest of us - my mother, my sister and me - followed a year later.

We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.

In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.

We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.

With the enhancements to the security of the passport document itself that biometric technology will bring, it is time to make equivalent enhancements to the process of establishing identity before issuing passports.

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

The birds never needed passports... We always thought, the birds can go wherever they want, and we couldn't, really. The birds were very much the symbol of... free movement for me.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.