Modeling was pretty difficult back then. I did not find the business something that I had an interest in. I wanted to be a veterinarian.

There was a golden retriever who saved countless lives on September 11 by going back in to find people. His companion was in a wheelchair. He got him out and kept going back in to save others.

No animal has to suffer for me to live.

Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.

We have a deep need to affiliate, to be around people, and no creature on earth spends as much of its life depending on others as we do

Its difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind

The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.

One of the reasons I don't have kids is because I think people would have been very unfair to them. Think of it. You're still asking me questions about The Exorcist.

For me reading the book [The Exorcist], I had the same questions that everyone else had. How does she jump up and down off the bed? How does her head spin around? How does she throw up?

If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn't be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important.

Turkeys are misunderstood. Once I adopted turkeys, I understood this large bird to be a great companion.

The war had remade her. Reshaped her purpose. Why couldn’t she unmake it again?

You really don't have to burn any bridges to let go... You don't have to destroy anything. You can just decide to cross over and move on.

I don’t actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn’t true it can’t be love.

Mum and Dad met campaigning on the Spanish civil war. Both were active peace campaigners. They died in 1986 and '87.

I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero, and I wanted to be more like him.

We are all more or less ill till we find -Self-enquiry our Oneness with everyone else.

It is never too late to regain our credibility around the world.

Mentally, he's not the same person anymore (Paul Williams).

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, curtain round the vault of heaven.