I'm an artist...The difference is that I don't tell anybody. I refuse to give them new reasons to laugh at me.

For I am coconut / and the heart of me / is sweeter / than you know.

Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. Thats just the nature of the beast.

There's something about a blank page that makes me tingle.

Each of us is tied, in some fashion, to the past. We are all part of a continuum.

Son, don't mind what's missing. Count allthat's free: friendship, laughter, all thelove your heart can carry, and time -- count time.

Round still, but that's fine.Feeling good outside and in.Maybe I'm not thin, but skinny isn't perfect.The perfect size is happy.

Scientology helps me in acting to focus on communication.

Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance.

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

The Vice Presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm spit.

Symbols are oracular forms-mysterious patterns creating vortices in the substances of the invisible world.

Most of the films that I've written, made in my life, I've written. Not all, but most I would say.

I am a raging alcoholic, but I don't want my kids to do the same.

Anything is easy to the man who sees.... The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective work than all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised.