I think the hardest thing in life is when we see those we love turn down a wrong path, and when no entreaty will induce them to retrace their steps.

Do it with passion, or not at all.

Hope can live in a vacuum.

Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics

I heart my job. I get to make things up for a living.

Haven't we all, as time continues, found that we must be kind to ourselves and listen to our thoughts, because fewer and fewer of those remain who know what is most real to us?

Going to AA helped me to see that there were other people who had problems that had found a way to talk about them and find relief and humor through that.

I'm just a product of my environment, and it comes out in the music.

He says he's a beautician and sells you nutrition, and keeps all your dead hair for making underwear.

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.

I bought the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I paid to have it made into a play and I played in it for six months. I came back and I tried to make it into a movie, without success.