"If we're going to address trafficking in our country we have to address poverty, racism & gender based violence."

“An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himeself with his art”

“I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.”

“Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her?Never mind physically but betray her in his mind,in the very "poetry of his soul".Well,it's not easy but men do it all the time.”

Source : Mario Puzo (2012). “Fools Die”, p.2, Random House

“One night I was on my [Navy] ship... on my first cruise crossing the North Atlantic in a horrible storm, chained to the rails so I wouldn't fall overboard. In this lightning and thunder and hail, in this misery, I shouted at the heavens with my little squeaky voice and said, Someday I'm going to be a photographer! It was as big an epiphany as any man ever had.”

“A lot of times, good improv is when both people, or however many people are in the scene, really have no idea what the next thing you're going to say is.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2010.

“pay attention to what I eat and to how I balance that with physical and mental exercise. The same way I want to spend time filling my mind with the best information I can acquire from the best sources I can obtain, I also want to consume nourishment from the best sources for my body.”

Source : "Origin Series: Empire Actor Adam Rodriguez". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“That's what happens. You just get on with it. There are no endings.”

“Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.”

Source : Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”