It seemed that I performed better sober than drunk. Who knew?

I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's.

I didn't say no because between safety and adventure I choose adventure.

I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day. Whoever I had become had to die.

Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape.

Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain unresolved the revenue stream will keep flowing.

I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could be done, and, after all, many of them were recovering alcoholics themselves.

Acid gave me a clinical, unblinking look at madness, and I discovered I wasn't brave enough to be insane.

After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock.

I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.

My mother was tickled and I think kind of proud when my father got hit on my an attractive middle-aged Asian lady who hadn't noticed he was with his family. He was certainly pleased about it.

Thinking not to think is Still thinking

I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust.

Take this rifle, kid. Gimme that guitar.

As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration, so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity.

It's strange that ''Evangelion'' has become such a hit - all the characters are so sick!

I believe all societies, all thriving societies of the future are going to be multicultural societies.

Total commitment to family and total commitment to career is possible, but fatiguing.

Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats.

The data stream has been corrupted, return to first principles.

Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.