"After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter."

“Public education has served as a check on the power of parents, and this is another powerful reason for maintaining it.”

“Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.”

Source : "Wicked: Number 5 in series". Book by Sara Shepard, 2011.

“They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.”

“The moment you introduce difference into a museum, then the privileged space is contested, and under the most ideal circumstances what all artists want is the chance to be competitive. That's what I think the museum is supposed to be.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“Maximum Rocknroll didn't have a map section. How was I supposed to know that Berkeley was not a neighborhood of San Francisco?”

“Unlike Hegel's progress model of history, which moves by stages, each containing its own logic of growth and decline, the economic model develops as the simple function of one money-variable over time, with a long-term trend which increases monotonically.”

“Go for the sense of inner joy, of inner peace, of inner vision first and then all the other things from the outside appear.”

“The swine who stole my dog doesn't realize what he did to me!”