I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.

My favorite pastime is to write.

I take great solace that Einstein failed math. I failed math. I also failed English and home economics. Einstein was an underachiever.

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

There is a weirdness about having a famous pre-pubescent in the house when you are going through the trials and tribulations of adolescence.

Being a child star is great. It's being a former child star that sucks.

My motto in life is, 'If anything is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.'

When I was living on the street I would be standing out in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater, leaning against my car and signing autographs and nobody had any idea that I was living in it.

If you're a kid in Southern California, somebody - whether it's you or your parents - somebody throws your hat into the ring and I think everyone had a commercial or two.

I'm really going to miss me.

There's nothing like turning on the radio and listening to the high-speed chase that you're leading police on!

...grief is loved turned into an eternal missing. ...It can't be contained in hours or days or minutes.

I am because I feel.

One’s capacity for hearing about ghastly doings lessens with age.

Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be.

People are stupid. There's a lot of dumb stuff that's successful.

The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah.

Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.

When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.

The locomotives are black. The coal is black. The tracks are black. The night is black. So what am I going to do with color?

'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.