A man could love only what he respected, not pitied.

Because we were Russian, sadness came naturally to us. But so did reading. In my family, a book was a life raft.

They’ve worked the absolute-power-corrupts-absolutely truth since the beginning of time. They foment destruction and chaos. It puts them in their happy place.

What makes a writer successful is not money or fame (though both are nice) ... it's that in being true to her or himself, the words were able to connect to a reader's heart.

John Legend is a cool guy. He likes to chill, is easy to talk to and hang out with. He's also inspiring on a musical level.

Men to whom God is dead worship one another.

I felt a huge drive to make clothes that everybody could have because I felt ostracized by that world of beauty and fashion. I never thought I would have a part in it. Never in a million years.

It was sweaty Whitney (Houston) in Central Park. She knew that park pretty well. Every bush!

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

And Toronto's own Sergio Trujillo has redone his choreography totally, showing all the comical invention that we know he's capable of.

I'm a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we're blindly optimistic.