Being a child star is great. It's being a former child star that sucks.

My favorite pastime is to write.

I take great solace that Einstein failed math. I failed math. I also failed English and home economics. Einstein was an underachiever.

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

There is a weirdness about having a famous pre-pubescent in the house when you are going through the trials and tribulations of adolescence.

My motto in life is, 'If anything is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.'

When I was living on the street I would be standing out in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater, leaning against my car and signing autographs and nobody had any idea that I was living in it.

If you're a kid in Southern California, somebody - whether it's you or your parents - somebody throws your hat into the ring and I think everyone had a commercial or two.

I'm really going to miss me.

There's nothing like turning on the radio and listening to the high-speed chase that you're leading police on!

I think I would have had less tumult in my life if I hadn't grown up in my particular house.

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Rather than communicating blame communicate your standards for proper future treatment.

To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance.

With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am.

You cannot know what you do not feel.

The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

Writing seems like the only job where what you think and feel really matters.

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.