Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.

He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about.

There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.

For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.

Uncertainty is the normal state.

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.

Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.

Death is the ultimate negative.

... The use of your gift for good is your responsibility. You must decide for yourself.

Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got

My favorite hotel is the Villa Alilla in Bali. The setting is pure bliss, overlooking the ocean of Uluwatu; the eye line makes you feel as if you're floating on top of the ocean.

There is a lot of underground type of fighting going on and some of it is not safe, it's pretty brutal. But it's absolutely fascinating.

Any story you've heard of my behavior is probably true.

I'm a proud person. I'm not vain. I look at it like it is. If you've got the money and you're going to be out there, you owe it to people not to look like a dog if you can help it.

Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.

Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say.

Reality is a wave function traveling both backward and forward in time.

If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy, for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.