Books need to have their spines cracked, their covers opened, and their pages ruffled for them to come alive.

Roads remain the essential network of the non-virtual world. They are the infrastructure upon which almost all other infrastructure depends. They are the paths of human endeavor.

Beware of those who speak negatively about everything and everybody. A negative person will never say a positive thing about you.

If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money.

Playing Etta James in the movie 'Cadillac Records' really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It's no fun being safe.

I really enjoy what I'm doing. I think you have to have a good time and not look too far back or too far ahead.

Models, even male models - how small they've gotten! It looks great for clothes, but it's not what you want in real life. Why do we have to keep looking at ourselves and measuring?

Adultery is extravagance.

A decisive cleansing of the conscience is a prerequisite for unhindered access to God

Can't you see the angel imprisoned in the block of stone trying to get out? I am trying to free him

You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.