Anna Deavere Smith Quote

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.

I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment. There are many created things in the universe that outlive us, that outlive the sun, even, but I ca...

I guess that sometimes it just takes a long walk through the darkness, a long walk through the darkest shadows and corners of your soul to realize that those are a part of you as well, that you've cre...

Just as Adam produced Woman without a woman, the Virgin produced the Second Adam without a man.

People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about...

Stephen Hawking asks, 'what did God do before he created the Universe?' Answer: He created Nothing

Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, focus your energy on what you can create.

Action is the mother of creation.

Shadow is the blue patch where the light doesn’t hit. It is mystery itself, and mystery is the ancients’ ultima Thule, the modern explorer’s Point of Relative Inaccessibility, that boreal point most d...