"Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development."

“Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it’s mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life.”

“Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.”

Source : Anna Deavere Smith (2008). “Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind”, p.76, Anchor

“I think some love you can stand to let go of because it's ultimately for the best, but other types you have to stick with until the day you die even when it's hard.You have to think about that before you run away from wherever you are. And then when you know, you either stay or you go and pray thatyou're making the right decision.”

Source : Nick Burd (2009). “The Vast Fields of Ordinary”, p.201, Penguin

“The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.”

“The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.”

“Here is your government at work. A congressman from Colorado said he wants to draft a rule that would make it unethical to have a sexual relationship with an intern. Only Congress would need a rule to tell them cheating on their wives is not ethical. Don't we have that rule? I believe it's called the Sixth Commandment.”

“Conquer land like Napoleon, military bomb fest We want sanitary food, planetary conquest”

“Memory is, first, a captivating mystery.”