After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.

You never know how much time you have with someone.

My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.

So many people pass up older dogs, which is a shame. With an older dog, you know what you are getting.

We are such idiots, We think everyone else has it all figured out. But we're all stumbling around in dark rooms bumping into furniture and stifling our cries so no one will know.

Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.

Life only demands from the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.

Freedom cannot be trifled with. You cannot surrender it for security unless in a state of war, and then you must guard carefully the methods of so doing.

I don't really want to go into my problems with the team at the time except to say that no one's ever had to pay me to play basketball.

There is a war going on. All talk of a Christian's right to live luxuriously "as a child of the King" in this atmosphere sounds hollow - especially since the King himself is stripped for battle.

You don't control whether your movies get made. You can't. All you can control is whether your draft is great. So, you write your great draft, as best as you can, and then move on to the next thing.

Sometimes you must leave everything and refresh yourself in the silence of a misty lake! Every such refreshment will give you an opportunity to make a long jump on the way to your target!

It was not seen that woman's place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.

What made you so unforgiving? (Simone) Be grateful that you have the luxury of asking me that question. Pray to whatever god you worship that you’ll always be ignorant. (Xypher)