I can think of some things that would be fun, but I'm living my dreams.

If you try to do your best there is no failure.

My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform.

I gave away two dogs years ago because I felt guilty at not being able to give them the time and attention they deserved. I now regularly feed an army of squirrels and wild birds around our house.

People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.

It is inappropriate for the Bush administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war.

Its mostly the financial chicanery thats going on. People are saying What kind of trust can we put in this market?

What one gets, I hope, is that all you can do is the best you can do.

We have seen economic growth. But we have not seen earnings growth.

What we are seeing here is environmental injustice

It's a losers' game to try and guess, it really is.

Youth is as easily wasted as a fine wine consumed by a drunken man. There is no poetry in aging, and Javert lived out the process in its most hideous iteration.

Who says you’ll get hurt again?”I pouted. “Have you met you?” “Right.

When I was a young guy, I knew everything. Now I know very little. I know less and less as the time goes on.

Philosophy is in fact a quest for wisdom based in sophia; that quest for wisdom has everything to do with a love of wisdom.

All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!

My greatest skill has been to want but little.

There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust.

Tell my father I wish to be his son.

I never wrote poetry, just prose. I don't really consider songwriting a form of poetry either. The words are important, of course, but they're dependent on the music.

Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.