I'm the age where we didn't have television as kids. So when I saw my nieces and nephews watching Howdy Doody, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, and so forth, I thought the world had gone mad.

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.

My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.

I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.

Men dominate because of physicality, and thus they have mercy where women do not.

Endangering human life for profit should be a universal crime.

Mean people are meaningless.

I’m addicted to words. The only way to get my fix is to write and read.

Do not confuse kindness with weakness. Kindness is a dying art. It is the single most important quality in this world and one which is sorely lacking.

Sister Maria Martinez whom I believe I've mentioned before has been giving me cooking classes. Today I learned how to bake mean banana bread. The secret apparently is half a cup of dark rum.

Listen to what the sky is telling you.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

The warrior’s approach is to say ‘yes’ to life: ‘yes’ to it all.

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, "What happens if I do this?"