[The Outsiders] was all new to me. It's been fun to be a part of that ride, where it's become on the level of Catcher In The Rye in terms of people's required reading in schools.

I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.

Can someone explain the vitriol whenever Ayn Rand comes up? 'Atlas' is the greatest motivator for the individual that I can imagine.

Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.

I was sick of playing high-school kids. I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.

We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself.

People have a responsibility, especially with today's media, to read between the lines.

Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside.

A little fire of anger can burn everything that you have built over your lifetime.

We didn’t have Facebook in my day, we had a phone book but you wouldn’t waste an afternoon on it

In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.

Right now I own shares of companies in 28 countries.

Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action

If ISIS represents Islam, then the KKK represents Christianity

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

I ain't scared of the fall / I've felt the ground before.

Businesses acting as businesses, not as charitable donors, are the most powerful force for addressing the pressing issues society face(s)

A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.