I resisted being an actor for some time.

I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.

While I'm here on this planet, I really want to create art and do creative things.

I don't want to be in a movie with 20 minutes of dialogue and then stand around while the robots start explosions.

I see myself as a creative being. My only fear is compromising my integrity. I guess that's a constant struggle.

You can very easily be turned into a commodity. I've grown up with it.

Our ignorance of the meaning of the existence of one or another creation does not mean they are meaningless

Mind is the foundation of man.

For five years we never went outside our doors without a volley of curses from our neighbours.

Just because something makes you smile or laugh ... doesn't mean it's a joke.

Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty

Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.

You always come back to Duke Ellington - he's kind of like the thread that holds everything together from the big band descending to lots of jazz, actually.

Our situation, with global warming and air quality and all of that, has gotten to be catastrophic.

We are stronger when we listen,and smarter when we share.

Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.