From this moment on I'd dedicate my life to rock and roll and take as many drugs as possible. What could possibly go wrong?

I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's.

I didn't say no because between safety and adventure I choose adventure.

I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day. Whoever I had become had to die.

Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape.

Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain unresolved the revenue stream will keep flowing.

I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could be done, and, after all, many of them were recovering alcoholics themselves.

Acid gave me a clinical, unblinking look at madness, and I discovered I wasn't brave enough to be insane.

After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock.

I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.

My mother was tickled and I think kind of proud when my father got hit on my an attractive middle-aged Asian lady who hadn't noticed he was with his family. He was certainly pleased about it.

The problem is that we are humans.

We spend half of our lives preparing to live-instead of just living.

I don't care about what people think about me.

So long as we are in conflict with our body, we cannot find peace of mind.

Seek a reality deeper than the changing forms.

The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball.

Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.

You have different people who come into your life and they affect you in a way and leave an impact on you. Whether it's projects or friends or directors, it's just an opportunity that people give me.

There really is no such thing as failure. There is only the rearrangement of plans and surrender of ego.

It's better to say, 'I'm suffering,' than to say, 'This landscape is ugly.