"Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born."

“I just want to be able to do something that's interesting to me.”

Source : "Jenny Slate and Nick Kroll Q&A: ‘My Blind Brother’ Stars Dig Deep On Complicated Characters You Can’t Help But Root For". Interview with Steve Greene, www.indiewire.com. September 23, 2016.

“I think didactic art is boring. I mean, I love it in terms of, like, some of the historical precedents that I've learned from. You needed that. We needed those building blocks in terms of - you know, when I look at a great Barbara Kruger, for example, and you're thinking about, you know, the woman's position in society - you know, she found a way of making it beautiful, but at the same time it's very sort of preachy, you know what I mean?”

“The creativity and adaptability of life expresses itself through the spontaneous emergence of novelty at critical points of instability. Every human organization contains both designed and emergent structures. The challenge is to find the right balance between the creativity of emergence and the stability of design.”

“I love to swim in the nude and roam around the house in the nude. You're just as free as a bird!”

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

“Thou shalt not steal the shekels of thine audience with a play which doth not let them know what the hell goeth on.”

“Women's stories are as powerful, inspiring, and terrifying as the goddess herself. And in fact, these are the stories of the goddess. As women, we know her because we are her. Each woman, no matter how powerless she might feel, is a cell within her vast form, an embodiment of her essence, and each woman's story is a chapter in the biography of the sacred feminine.”

Source : Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

“Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.”

“Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.”

Source : "2016 Race: Is looking for faith in a candidate the wrong way to approach the voting booth?" by Bruce Riley Ashford , Chris Pappalardo, www.foxnews.com. January 21, 2016.