"Only the inquiring mind solves problems."

“A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to upset the stomach. Consciousness is a poison when we apply it to ourselves. Consciousness is a light directed outward. it's like the headlights on a locomotive—turn them inward and you'd have a crash.”

“I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.”

Source : "Darrell Issa Asks Business: Tell Me What To Change" by Nick Wing, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2011.

“How much hair product does it take to get those spikes?”

“I can make fried tofu, boiled tofu, stuffed tofu. Cutlets and other fancy stuff, that's for other directors.”

“My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the 'natural' order of things in the history of post-war-N.Y. painting.”

Source : "Deborah Kass On Appropriation, Barbra Streisand, And The Dissolving Middle Class (PHOTOS, INTERVIEW)". Interview with Hallie Sekoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2012.

“There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.”

“Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them in particular, what we compare them to.”

“Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity.”