I have more love, success, and security than I could ever dream of.

Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.

I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.

I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.

Change is a stranger you have yet to know.

Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.

People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do.

I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.

The complete bottom has fallen out of my life.

When you come into a movie theatre, there are no windows, you don't hear the sound outside and you're ready for fantasy.

I really started hanging out with Steve [Murphy, the inspiration for Holbrook's character] a lot. I got educated that way. It was crash course. You learn as quickly as possible.

My anti-liberal position should not be mistaken for conservatism.

I have said it many a time, and am surer of it than ever, that the life and death issue of Christianity is the inspiration and authority of the Bible.

If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.

Like most of us, I determined that I'd rather be a large part of the problem than a small part of the solution.

When the urgent crowds out the important, people urgently accomplish nothing of value.