But in order to be the thing you want to be, you have to work like a dog at the thing you love.

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

The last few years have been pretty hectic.

One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage.

I always signed autographs when I could and always stayed and chatted with them when I could.

Getting old is not for sissies, kid.

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.

But I firmly believe that you can't be emotionally free until you are emotionally committed.

Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.

I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself

Equanimity means that one does not do abhorrence at the time of abhorrence (generating incidents) and one does not do attachment at the time of attachment (generating incidents).

There’s no such thing as fate. It’s just the word men give to decisions which have worked out badly.

When you strive to possess, there is always a reward waiting for you both in heaven and on earth.

When people are bored it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.

Sometimes this high-tech world calls for low-tech solutions.

I want to believe that in any relational moment a person understands that the other person in front of them is just another human being.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

Eccentricity is like having an accent. It's what "other" people have.

To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will be an imperfect form of communication.

It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.