Larry Hagman was a huge star, and he was carrying my stuff for me.

Usually I get recognized for The Blue Lagoon or Dallas.

There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.

The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it, so he planted pine trees all over the place!

I'm a very big believer in fate.

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.

You know, I never expected to enter the movie business.

I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I have a lot of insecurities about myself.

Who cares who comes out of the closet or not, so long as you're happy?

Now I'm growing and I can see my faults. I can look at myself objectively and say I can't blame anyone else; it was my own damn fault.

Everybody wants to be like everybody else.

I don't underestimate the power of mental preparation throughout all of my training. I'm in a much better state of mind about competition.

To tell the truth days are all the same size and words aren't much company.

You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.

... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.

The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.

Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.

Never forget which way you face

Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent thread through my poem-creation process.

Don't the wounded bird still sing?

Everything on our tormented earth that is alive and breathes, that blossoms and bears fruit, lives only by virtue of and in the name of Truth and Good.