Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.

My art became very public.

But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.

Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.

When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.

Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.

But my favorite work is always my next piece.

I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.

My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.

If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

I've always been a fine artist.

What do we believe? Why do we believe it?

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

The media's job is to question a premise.

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.

It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it.

Celebrations of anniversaries of disasters, such as nuclear power plant meltdowns or political assassinations, provide opportunities, as do holidays.

I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

I prayed every night that God would keep my family safe. But as far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.

I'm a straight shooter, a New York City girl. I see things as they are and call them as they are.

I like looking at a book and asking myself, 'How do I replicate that experience I just had as a reader?'

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

I'm a nice guy, but I like to get into trouble.

I think America's food culture is embedded in fast-food culture. And the real question that we have is: How are we going to teach slow-food values in a fast-food world? Of course, it's very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown up eating fast food and the values that go with that.

I'm excited by challenging myself physically and mentally every day.

It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all - most of us, anyway - want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

I guess there might come a point when I will want to live an anonymous life. I'm only at the start of my career, so I'm sure that moment will come, but I know how blessed I am to have this platform on which to speak and influence.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

I am not, at heart, a playwright.

So many women keep their anger inside and let it build until they explode and then people blow them off again.

Religion is not theory - it is life. It is not intellectual conviction - it is divine humanity, and nothing else.

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man's intelligence.

Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

Just as computer technology and the Internet created whole new industries and extraordinary benefits for people that extend into almost every realm of human endeavor from education to transportation to medicine, genetics will undoubtedly benefit people everywhere in ways we can't even imagine but know will surely occur.

Feminism is, I hope, a way to a better future for everyone who inhabits this world. Feminism should not be something that needs a seductive marketing campaign. The idea of women moving through the world as freely as men should sell itself.

If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'

Really good mountain bikers are lousy judges of trail difficulty. We havent a clue we just ride.

Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts.

People are always asking me where I come from, and they're expecting me to say India, and they're absolutely right insofar as 100 percent of my blood and ancestry does come from India. Except, I've never lived one day of my life there. I can't speak even one word of its more than 22,000 dialects.

Honestly, I just try to live right, get enough sleep, and drink a lot of water. I do drink a lot of water; I do live by that. And just eating good clean food... I do love all of it. But I do definitely try to eat better organic food.