It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.

I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide.

I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as an addiction, and all my friends who smoked it, I felt they really needed help.

Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O'Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together.

I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties.

I wanted to go to regular high school- it looked like a lot of fun.

We each had to spend a week out at Lassie's ranch, and whoever got along best with the dog got the part.

Yeah, dog was this man's best friend, for sure.

Death isn't the end, it's the beginning.

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

I had read once that dumb people didn't know they were dumb. They thought they were just as smart as anybody else. That was a very unsettling thought. What if I was really dumb and didn't know it?

I don't care when people use the term 'one-Slam wonder' with me.

I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.

I just want to do the best possible job with everything that I do. But I'm far more concerned with being a good father as opposed to being a good actor because that's what's really going to matter.

lonely people are always up in the middle of the night.

You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides him from you

Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century.

It's often hilarious to me that I'm writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there's a blizzard outside and the cows are on their backs with their hooves in the air.