I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.

I can't control how people are going to react. I try not to worry about what I can't control.

Life is hard for everyone. That's why there's such a nice reward at the end of it.

I think there's a down-to-earthness with Midwesterners and with people from the Midlands - which is where my family is from - in Ireland.

I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved.

I had to bring myself back down to being a normal person again.

I'd wear clogs, short pants and ladies' bracelets. I created this aura for myself.

Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.

There's certainly more work for me in TV these days.

I don't get any parts I don't get offered. There are lots of great things out there I would like to do that I don't get offered.

I'd sneak out of the house to meet girls at 3:30 a.m.

With a book he was regardless of time.

Maturity understands that there’s darkness in the world but that there’s no need to dwell in it: we can lighten up and offer illumination to others.

Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the inner country of his own soul.

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry.

It is a terrible thing to want something you cannot have. It takes you over. I couldn't think straight because of it. There was no one else, I realized, whom I could possibly tell.

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

Yet it is only love which sets us free.

When I first started, I worked with three chords in every bar, but I found that tied me down - I'm not a chord-change writer, I'm a songwriter.

I'm a TV junkie. I'm always flipping through channels.