Not why the addiction, but why the pain.

We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world.

The difference between passion and addiction is that between a divine spark and a flame that incinerates.

In the real world there is no nature vs. nurture argument, only an infinitely complex and moment-by-moment interaction between genetic and environmental effects

Autonomy is impossible as long as one is driven by anything.

... While nervous tension may be a component of stress, one can be stressed without feeling tension.

If you believe, it shall be.

I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves.

My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

Keep skid chains on your tongue. Say less than you think. Cultivate a pleasant voice. How you say it is often more important than what you say.

I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.

If I'm in a corner, I like my corner. It's the coolest corner I've ever been in.

I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't.

The great thing about improvisation is that it allows us to establish an uncensored form of theater. Freedom of speech is absolutely inherent to artistic expression.

Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That's what you could say about it.