If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.

I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, its governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.

Great fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

I've never outgrown my childhood.

We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.

But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

People who know, know. The others, it really doesn't matter.

I didnt want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.

In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe.

That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Everyone always says that love was enough. It wasn't. Not when your soul has been shattered.

I'm nervous whenever I perform.

My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional.

But as soon as I joined 'Six Feet Under', I felt like I was finally doing something again that the fans really loved, and I could stop being afraid of 'Clueless' fans!

Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies.

Phil Jackson would fight his own players in practice.

Sometimes a perceived obstacle is just an opportunity in disguise.

I have this obsession with the '80s because I missed all of it.