I've lived through what seems to most - and myself - many lives.

There was a golden retriever who saved countless lives on September 11 by going back in to find people. His companion was in a wheelchair. He got him out and kept going back in to save others.

No animal has to suffer for me to live.

Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.

We have a deep need to affiliate, to be around people, and no creature on earth spends as much of its life depending on others as we do

Its difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind

The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.

One of the reasons I don't have kids is because I think people would have been very unfair to them. Think of it. You're still asking me questions about The Exorcist.

Modeling was pretty difficult back then. I did not find the business something that I had an interest in. I wanted to be a veterinarian.

For me reading the book [The Exorcist], I had the same questions that everyone else had. How does she jump up and down off the bed? How does her head spin around? How does she throw up?

If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn't be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important.

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

Man is a logical machine run by the scoundrels of emotions.

As wonderful as dogs can be, they are famous for missing the point.

And if I loved you Wednesday well what is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

I'm having an unbelievable time on the road. I am taking the time to explore each new city in a way I never have before.

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant.

You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesnt work like that.

I hate it when people lose it, there's nothing left because they're not interesting, they're boring, I hate it, and especially smack, people on smack are the most boring in the world.