Poetry is a disease vector. Like malaria.

In the beginning of a movie, they don't tell you what's going to happen. You just have to wait and go on the adventure with them

Some books are so beautiful and intriguing that you never want to put them down, forever leaving you in anticipation to read the next page.Some people are the same way.

When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish...Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they had both lived? Not a prayer.

Those who succeed in life are those who are unashamed to ask silly questions.

I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.

Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism" . . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.

During the '80s I wrote Memoirs from the Women's Prison. This is one of my most important books. It came out in Arabic in '83. About my experience in prison.

I'm a middle child, which is probably why I chose to be an actress. I needed the attention. I've got one older sister and a younger brother.

Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.

Good taste is always bad.

What some folks call impossible is just stuff they haven't seen before.

I love the French horn.