I have a weird sense that people ten years younger than me don't own a radio, or maybe they own a radio, but they don't call it a radio.

There's a grand-canyon sized gulf between explanation and experience.

Continue to reinvent. Keep things moving and changing and growing and always a little bit out of reach.

Get comfortable with the idea that you won’t know what’s good until it’s already happened.

Therein lies the rub of a place like Berkeley Bowl. You get seduced by an 11-pound apple that turns out to be a fake watermelon with an anus.

Shame on you. Don't tell me you've been married for an hour and you've already got eyes for another woman.

If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.

I love to listen to books on tape.

You've got to stop letting women slip drugs into your mouth, Dex, it's unhygienic. And dangerous. One day it'll be a cyanide capsule.

One senses the figures as passing by the tree line and, caught in the presence of the wall, turning to gaze upon it almost as a vision.

I have tremendous admiration for everyone who enters the political arena so long as their goal is to do what they believe is right for the people of New York.

Lie down on the floor and keep calm.

As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist -- Groucho, that is. When you have lived two-thirds of your life, you know the value of a good joke.

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.