After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock.

I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's.

I didn't say no because between safety and adventure I choose adventure.

I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day. Whoever I had become had to die.

Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape.

Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain unresolved the revenue stream will keep flowing.

I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could be done, and, after all, many of them were recovering alcoholics themselves.

Acid gave me a clinical, unblinking look at madness, and I discovered I wasn't brave enough to be insane.

I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.

My mother was tickled and I think kind of proud when my father got hit on my an attractive middle-aged Asian lady who hadn't noticed he was with his family. He was certainly pleased about it.

I didn't flee a dictator or swim an ocean to be an American like some do. I just thought long and hard about it.

I swear the man could seduce the holy mother!

How I wish that more men who claim to be evangelical really believed the Word of God--that it IS the Word of God, that it is God speaking.

My identity is not it, which given by the community. my identity is my natural mask.

Isn’t Hollywood a dump — in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.

In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power.

I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.

Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things that will never realistically happen.

I can't emphasize the immediate panic that would set in when I had to audition. I can't believe I did it.

I will take a short time out from being in Parliament when the baby is born but I'll still be doing my constituency work - just with another baby in tow.

Art that serves an artist best is an experiment in expanding awareness.