I'm not jealous, and I'm not possessive, and I'm not controlling.

Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

Don't tell me what I'm not doing when I'm doing what you don't think I'm doing!

Drinking your own blood is the paradigm of recycling.

Relationship. R-E-L-A-T-I-O-N-S-H-I-P means this: Really exciting love affair turns into overwhelming nightmare. Sobriety hangs in peril.

I'll tell you this: You have to remember to chase and catch your dreams, because if you don't, your imagination will live in empty spaces, and that's nowhere land.

My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.

Five parts of my brain contain alien power, whatever I do or say cannot be denied on the intergalactic highway of existence.

There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.

If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.

I've been told by doctors and surgeons that I have the energy of ten men who have normal jobs.

Well, have you even tried again? You can’t just sit around waiting for the new world to take it with you. You have to go out and be part of it - despite your past mistakes.

Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it has been discovered before. Lastly they say they always believed it.

When our patterns are threatened by new facts, reason is seldom the victor: 'I know what I think, so don't go confusing me with new opinions.

A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied he is content.

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

I think boxing is an incredible sport and I would like to see it really become regulated because I think it could bring back a lot of the past.

Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.

In New York City there are interesting characters and there are interesting stories. There's a story on every street corner. I love it. I think that's what really attracts me to making films.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

Amiability is very often a weakness, but the most unobjectionable one as a rule.