For so much of my career I've been trying to find little things and make something out of it.

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

Mercury poisoning sounds like a rich man's disease . . . like something you might get from the leather seats in your Lamborghini.

If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that's their fault - not yours. And it's OK to be a decent human being in this life.

If masturbation is a crime then I should be on death row.

Sometimes - this is a tough one - not everyone can handle the truth. Sometimes you have to take a beat. But if you can take that beat, and take the high road, it'll serve you in the long run.

The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.

Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.

I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside.

We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.

What's this? You're wearing the shirt of the band you're going to see? Don't be that guy.

I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.

To the sick while there is life there is hope.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

I would like to have seen my sons growing up.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, -

Gov. Scott Walker, a Tea Party-tinged Republican, is the advance guard of a new GOP push to dismantle public-sector unions as an electoral force.

I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.

No missionary can determine the lasting effects of his or her labors.

God does so love to make a man break a promise.

I have definitely had experiences where I can feel the shift from simply living my life to being slightly outside of my life and taking notes.