If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history.

You would be surprised what two hours of daily exercise and five hundred stomach crunches can do for you.

Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.

He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.

Forgiving others is easier when I remember that I'm human and stupid, too.

Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring.

Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?

What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?

You raze the old to raise the new.

I didn't know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.

When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.

Experience teaches us the events of a lifetime.

Stands the Church clock at ten to three?And is there honey still for tea?

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

If you really want to know something about solitude, become famous.

There is nothing stronger than a heart which loves and is freely given.

Most single guys I know think fatherhood is terrifying.

Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.

Tell me, why do former young designers who are now in their middle 40s have to redo the 1960s and 70s. Why they cannot invent fashion for today?

I was taught early on in my recovery that, 'Pain is good. Extreme pain is extremely good.'

I'd love to do situation comedy - it's the best job in show business.