I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better.

In my early teen years, I wanted to become a vet. That was my plan. I worked as a veterinarian's assistant for a couple of summers.

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

I really want to see the Cubs in the World Series. I really do.

Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic.

Everybody just wants to be famous first, and then maybe learn how to act.

God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.

Certainly I'm a Christian first and foremost. But I do believe in religious tolerance and finding the commonality between all of us. I think that's how we're all going to come together.

I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.

I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd.

First deal with your own tears; tomorrow do something about acid rain.

I write to save someone's life, probably my own

I think that's foolishness on the part of the playwright to write about himself. People don't know anything about themselves.

They were like two enemies in love with one another.

Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.

Every season hath its pleasure; Spring may boast her flowery prime, Yet the vineyard's ruby treasuries Brighten Autumn's sob'rer time.

What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up

If you set up an environment where failing is encouraged then you want to try everything. It's obviously the best way to work.