It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

The Secret Revealer is the Righteous God.

The time we are living in is a significant time

We humans speak many languages

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.

Sorrow is not evil, since it stimulates and purifies.

I'd rather try and not win than not try at all

Where there is most labour there is not always most life.

I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera.

L.A. to me is not really an attractive place.

Most people are reasonable. That's why they only do reasonably well.