Absorbing the fact that sometimes, people do cut you slack and forgive you and want you anyway. Sometimes they do. And when they do, even if it's not a happy ending, it is delicious

My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.

I did Lassie for six years and I never had anybody come up to me and say, 'It made me want to be a farmer.

Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it.

Silence is a protective coating over pain.

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.

A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity.

Always do what you're afraid to do. ... I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak.

Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.

It is the story that matters, not just the ending.

The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel.

It's better to burn out than to fade away.

...ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves.

Success is like water, the more thirsty you are for it is the more you will drink it, and you'll need it forever to survive.

A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it.

By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.

It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.

Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.

I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.

I'll always want to play and share my music with as many people as I can, but the emphasis is more on how do I find a happy place, what's my balance, what's my ideal.