I was very shy, and it was a lot easier for me to communicate if I had a camera between me and other people.

The man is clear in his mind, but his soul is mad.

It takes more than going down to the video store and renting "Easy Rider" to be a rebel.

Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.

People keep asking me, 'What evil lurks in you to play such bad characters?' There is no evil in me, I just wear tight underwear.

Just because it happened to you, doesn't mean it's interesting.

Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your name is taken off the parking lot.

My whole written history is one big lie! I mean, I can't even believe my history.

In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word" trouble' loses much of its meaning.

Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.

I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like found objects to me.

Freedom is what's left when the belief systems deconstruct.

conservative n.A person who possesses an underdeveloped taste for tyranny.liberal n.A person who believes in liberty, but only for the state.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.

Yoga means we go a step further back. In yoga we go to the cause. The cause of pain is not the world. The cause of pain is us.

God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.

This letter really touched my heart. Sabrina says when she lost all her hair during chemo, she wore the cap I gave her.

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.

For me mindfulness is like building a house, so the next time the tsunami that is depression comes I'll have a structure in place to resist it.