Boredom is only for boring people with no imagination.

Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to where ever time washes away to.

That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out.

The only way you're going to get something to last in this world is to work at it

Beauty’s all around me right here. It’s not in a textbook. It’s not in an equation. I mean, take the sunlight … The colors flow into your lungs, into your bloodstream. You are the colors.

Our whole society's a training ground for addicts.

They've drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don't want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything to still be new.

Have you ever started to wave at someone and then realized they weren’t really waving at you, so you abort and go for a head scratch instead? That’s how I felt.

Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.

To hell with tomorrow. To hell with all problems and barriers. Nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.

You think, 'Here's something I can hold on to,' but it always slips away.

Your calling is buried in your background on earth

It's hard to get enough of something that almost works.

Don’t you trust me! What good is it if you don’t bloody trust me!

Tricks ripped and you tripped, tricked yourself by falling slowly.I’m the winner in this game, unable to stoop to your level of shame.Unwilling to reply to your words of ache.

O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?

I've been married 34 years. I have not been a perfect man. I have made mistakes in my life.

The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that is, is capable of more work with the same expenditure of fuel.

There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.

One day I was 17 years old and I ended up trying to commit suicide and I ended up in the hospital. As a teenager, that was a really scary thing.

A reasonable fine is such as the law will judge to be so . . . but what a reasonable fine is, and who shall be the judge of it, the law has established no rule.