If people are watching me 365 days a year, 360 days they might be bored to tears. And on the other five days, maybe I would qualify as Satan.

I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.

Can someone explain the vitriol whenever Ayn Rand comes up? 'Atlas' is the greatest motivator for the individual that I can imagine.

Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.

I was sick of playing high-school kids. I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.

We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself.

People have a responsibility, especially with today's media, to read between the lines.

Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts and confusions, are written for the love of man and in Praise of God, and I'd be a damn fool if they weren't.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it.

The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upward and leads to a perfect forgiveness.

My stepfather was a very nasty individual.

Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.

The songs started as a soundscapes, and then came the words and music; each song took at least a year to make.

If I had to give you one piece of advice it would be this: don't be intimidated by other people's opinions.

You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome.

A School Library is Like the Bat Cave: it's a safe fortress in a chaotic world, a source of knowledge and the lair of a superhero.