Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front so that I know where the front is.

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 . . .

Each daily task, is but the future in a mask.

Never dare to sell your soul for money, because no amount of wealth would buy you an air conditioner in hell.

Survival is an ancient dream Life is nothing but an everlasting illusionNothing is RealDon’t believe in illusion, Remember me, I am here …

If prophets are real, they are not leaders but followers.

Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

It is time to search out your uniqueness, applaud and acknowledge yourself, and let your own light shine.

The love you feel in life is a reflection of the love you feel in yourself.

And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.

I'm not perfect but I'm learning to be better.

I still got a few more dances with the devil...