I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called life.

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future

I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll

From the moment we walk out the door until we come back home our sensibilities are so assaulted by the world that we have to soak up as much love as we can get, simply to arm ourselves.

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days.

I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone.

A dead Christ I must do everything for

Words are weapons of war.

It is only the sudden and unpredictable appearance of comets that spoils the immutable celestial sphere.

Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.

I'm not a princess but Ryan is a knight, he just belongs to someone else.

I'm quite disappointed that I'm still the last man on the moon.

In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress.

You are here. You are not the one who will go and come. Let what you're suffering from go and come, not you. You stay put.

Cash in must exceed cash out.

I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.