I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon.

I know this sounds kind of crazy, but I think we're all actors.

I only hear my own voice. When you start hearing other voices, then it's time to worry.

I don't know why, but I like the saxophone.

One of my greatest fears is not being able to change, to be caught in a never-ending cycle of sameness. Growth is so important.

One of my biggest fears is not being able to break out of a rut; of becoming a prisoner to my ways, unable to change course. But in my mid-thirties, I learned you can change your thinking.

These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities.

Love is messy. It's not something that's real clean.

The worst thing I could be accused of is that I'm a one-way dude, only out for myself. But the worst thing a woman can do is not to say anything. Especially when you're starting a relationship.

When I was twenty-two it was a lot harder to get hurt by women. It was easier for me to, you know, cheat on a girlfriend. I can't lie like that anymore.

I'm drawn to women who live in a world different from my own. I don't believe you have to marry someone from your own backyard. James Joyce married a woman who never read any of his books.

My advice to you, my violent friend, is to seek out gold and sit on it.

To achieve anything you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.

The possible ranks higher than the actual.

All men are children, and if you understand that, a woman understands everything.

And that phrase - 'sleeping like a baby.' Some blonde said it blithely on the subway the other day. I wanted to lie down next to her and scream for five hours in her ear.

If you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold.

The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.

Striving humbly but heroically to live by what is good, true, and noble in the midst of - and in spite of - the modern climate.

The mood of the '50s is like today.

Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.