I am a reformed Catholic. I'm a Buddhist in other words.

Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.

I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes.

It's not that it's so good with money, but that it's so bad without it.

Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote.

I'm nobody's fool, least of all yours.

Hope that, in future, all is well, everyone eats free, no one must work, all just sit around feeling love for one another.

I do not spoil women. ... I don't send them flowers and gifts. . . . I'm saving those gestures until I am an unpleasant old man who must resort to bribery to win a woman's synthetic affections.

Live. Let nothing be lost upon you. Be afraid of nothing.

Dear world, I am leaving because I am bored.

Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

Who waits until the wind shall silent keep Will never find the ready hour to sow.

In my early days of flying, if you flew on instruments, you were inevitably going to fly in thunderstorms. That was just a part of the business of flying.

Love meant something to her, she dreamt of it, thought of it, wrote of it. It was the one thing in life that had eluded her completely.

We must stop setting our sights by the light of each passing ship; instead we must set our course by the stars.

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.

I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred.

My friend, God wants to throw a beam of light on your path today.

I would never say out loud that I am raising my children alone, but a lot of the time it has felt like that.

She began to feel the sense of wonderful elation that always came to her when beauty took hold of her and made her forget her fears.

Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.