I'd done a very long project on Bridges To Babylon. I was on the road for ages with that. When I came off the road, I thought, the next thing I want to do on my own.

People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters.

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

There's no absolutes in life - only vodka.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

A good thing never ends.

I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.

Nothing would keep him from loving her. She was everything he wanted. She was his.

Writing is easy. Writing a publishable book is hard.

In a way winter is the real spring the time when the inner things happen the resurge of nature.

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

My mom, Emilie, always taught me to think hard about marriage.

It has been my experience that the hearings are really, in effect, a subtle minuet, with the nominee answering as many questions as he thinks necessary in order to be confirmed.

[The Internet generation is] not fighting that battle about who gets to speak; they all get to speak.

Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it.

And I'm not very coordinated, either. Only on ice skates, not in real life.

As you get older, don't slow down. Speed up. There's less time left!