No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called life.

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future

I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll

From the moment we walk out the door until we come back home our sensibilities are so assaulted by the world that we have to soak up as much love as we can get, simply to arm ourselves.

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days.

I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone.

The thing about 'Gilmore Girls' is that it's such a specific voice, and I lived with it for so long before it got on the air It's a very specific rhythm and a very specific banter.

I know I probably never will win the league MVP or passing title. That is not why I play the game. I try to win football games and championships.

Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.

All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.

Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.

the process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind.

Well was it said by a man of sagacity that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the best way to be convinced of this was to close the ears and judge of it by the eyes alone.

I worry about my nan. If she's alone and falls, does she make a noise? I'm joking, she's dead.

If you seek approval from others in this world, you will not know happiness.

Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.