I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.

There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.

Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.

For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to others.

Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.

We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.

This isn't just a food product---it is a lifestyle change that encourages you to step out of your comfort zone.

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.

We may not know who is craft beer but we sure as hell will know what is craft beer by who isn't.

When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.

The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.

The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more.

You don't know what God can do with your broken pieces until you give God your broken pieces.

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.

Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.