My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you're going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people.

A dog is grateful for what is, which I am finding to be the soundest kind of wisdom and very good theology.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.

I want to interact with my fans, and I want to let people know what I'm doing and stuff like that because I'd want to know.

When love brings so much joy, why must it bring so much pain?

The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead.

I asked my old man if I could go ice-skating on the lake. He told me, "Wait til it gets warmer."

The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.