After being thrown out of the house, four schools and the United States Army, I discovered that I was on the right track.

I'm not an actor. I can show up for friends and improvise a little bit, but I'm not an actor.

It was so nice to go into this fake courtroom [on Ally McBeal]. I immediately went up into the judge's chair. Nice view. A preferable perspective.

I am not grown up, because I grow everyday.

Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him.

The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.

I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it.

I have always been involved in issue-based politics, not party politics - I was never really originally drawn to party politics.

If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.

On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself is used as a manufacturing process.

Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.

My big dream was to work as a photographer for 'National Geographic.'

Atheism: the religion devoted to the worship of one's own smug sense of superiority.