People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.

I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.

You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means - I mean... you know, to say that I would be glad would mean that I planned it.

2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.

I think of myself as an actor.

The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.

The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle.

Art allows us to die over and over without actually dying. Only we must catch our breath.

You can always create the life you want.Workhard to fulfill your dreams.

I have become an orchidwashed in on the salt white beach.Memory, what can I make of it nowthat might please you-this life, already wastedand still strewn with miracles?

First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.

Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens, it's entirely your responsibility the entire time. I like that intensity.

Compassion allows us to accept everything. That's why there's always a tear in the eye of the Buddha that no one sees, for the pain and suffering of others.

There is a vast frontier that's going to take us a while to understand... it was very lunar, a very desolate place, isolated.

To die should be the most interesting journey of all the journeys a person can take.

you have not a boat of your own, that is just it; that is what women always suffer from; they have to steer, but the craft is some one else's, and the haul too.

Poetry affords us a respite in which we may gather renewed strength for the old struggle to adapt ourselves to reality.