"Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony."

“Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.”

“To transform the world women need to strive for authenticity.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com

“I write my own stories. I like telling stories to little children. I think the good thing about stories is they carry you to another place which you've never been. And you feel like you're just enveloped by the book and the characters.”

“A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people BOW DOWN to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life...but I had an insight that maybe we would have a political contribution to make in the future.”

Source : "Minister of Counterculture". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2005.

“Each Fall the graves of my grandfathers call me, the brown hills and red gullies of mississippi send out their electric messages, galvanizing my genes.”

Source : Etheridge Knight (1968). “Poems from prison”

“You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing.”

“Watermelons and Zen students grow pretty much the same way. Long periods of sitting till they ripen and grow all juicy inside, but when you knock them on the head to see if they're ready sounds like nothing's going on.”