One of my biggest fears is not being able to break out of a rut; of becoming a prisoner to my ways, unable to change course. But in my mid-thirties, I learned you can change your thinking.

I know this sounds kind of crazy, but I think we're all actors.

I only hear my own voice. When you start hearing other voices, then it's time to worry.

I don't know why, but I like the saxophone.

One of my greatest fears is not being able to change, to be caught in a never-ending cycle of sameness. Growth is so important.

These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities.

Love is messy. It's not something that's real clean.

The worst thing I could be accused of is that I'm a one-way dude, only out for myself. But the worst thing a woman can do is not to say anything. Especially when you're starting a relationship.

When I was twenty-two it was a lot harder to get hurt by women. It was easier for me to, you know, cheat on a girlfriend. I can't lie like that anymore.

I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon.

I'm drawn to women who live in a world different from my own. I don't believe you have to marry someone from your own backyard. James Joyce married a woman who never read any of his books.

God, who knows me by name, [is] right next to me.

Congenial labor is essence of happiness.

We need a proper understanding of the past to correctly judge the present if we ever are to foretell the future.

It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies.

As long as I can still be on my own and do my own thing and be working full time, it's great.

I'm not a speed writer. I write slowly and revise obsessively. The end result tends to be good. That's where my strength is.

The smartest thing I ever did was to hire my weakness.

Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.

Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.