I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless.

Sometimes simple things are the most difficult things to achieve.

You have to change your life if you’re not happy, and wake up if things aren’t going the way you want.

I guess living without love, without experiencing it or being able to give it is pretty strong punishment.

Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place.

I’m a Virgo; it’s in my sign to be hard on myself.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

You need to be happy to live, I don't.

I thank the earth and the sky everyday for the opportunities I’ve had.

Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.

Be unapologetically you.....Don't apologize for who you are or what you are. Just be YOU and those that matter will be drawn to you and those that aren't will not matter.

I have learned one lesson in all this and I will share it knowing it will do no one any good. The lesson is this: "There are none more complicit in one's undoing than one's own heart".

I didn't go abroad until quite late. A friend drove us to Amalfi, Italy, for his sister's wedding when I was a teenager. It was exciting driving through Europe.

some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.

Farewell! O Gandalf! May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!

If you want to direct, you've got to work.

I think future generations will look back at this history of our country and call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies who we never gave a chance to live.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

Faith is the enemy of discovery.