"Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment."

“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

“Poetry is something that disturbs the mainstream with minor things and it is something that breaks down active discrimination with passive things, and it can break down something that polishes the filthy things with filthy things.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“I just want to help people do better research.”

Source : "We talked to the scientist at the center of a brutal firestorm in the field of psychology" by Rafi Letzter, www.businessinsider.com. September 26, 2016.

“There can be no mercy without truth.”

“I said to myself, "If the government thinks I'm an artist, I must be one."”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.”

“The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden”

“With all of the people in the world and all of the suffering and all of the things that people are forced to do for lack of other alternative, the fact that I had a subsidized education and got to go right into a life of playing music for a living, what a stupidly fortunate place to be.”

Source : Source: www.songfacts.com