Duke Ellington

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

When actresses jump on the anti-Iraq bandwagon, they often combine down-home momism with an ignorance of Islamist intent which is truly awesome.