No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him.

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 . . .

No one ever loved you like him. And no one ever took it away so completely. But it's here. Look around.

I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.

What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.

But I was waiting for some magical moment, that would prove to me, forever would be fine. Meanwhile, my first love was standing first in line.

Nothing else loves me, or ever will. Not even - especially - me. I know what I am and that is not a thing to love.

Who said the road doesn’t have bumps? It can still be traveled.

To gnaw on is human, towards digest, divine.

Choice impacts virtually every element of our life.

History is a bucket of ashes.

Honey the party went away quickly, but thats the trouble with ticking and talking.