The religion is a formality. What matters is you show respect to God and your faith in God.

You have to challenge people to reconsider what is art, what is taste. Because it's someone's point-of-view.

Writing and directing has always been my first passion. That's where the focus of my energy is.

One of the things that makes me who I am is the loyalty I have to people I hold close to my heart.

The world is fast becoming a corporate caliphate

The door closed and darkness claimed the room.

You should open these doors with care and caution-but, first, you must know how to close them. And above all, you must know which doors should be left unopened...

Fracture lines etch the surface of the glass box as if a body fell from the sky and landed on it. He doesn't hear the impact, can't smell the blood.

I got the chance to be the secretary of state I'm an international relations specialist. It doesn't get better than that.

Barbara Jordan is one [of the political heroes]. Her 1976 speech in New York inspired me to get into politics.

In the end, in England, when you want to find out how people are feeling, you always go to the pubs.

Far away, in the meadow, shadows flickered in the Mirror's Maze, as if parts of someone's life, yet unborn, were trapped there, waiting to be lived.

Emma Rothschild's magnificently researched and lucidly written book reveals the many connections and layers of empire without in any way undermining the less edifying aspects of empire.