The only thing I don't doubt is my doubt.

One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.

I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .

I'm kind of this control freak that likes to create his own hells before the real one can get to him

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

How theraputic it is to surrond yourself with people stranger than yourself.

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.

Real life has always let me down. That's why I do the monologues. I have always said I would rather tell a life than live a life. But I have to live a life in order to tell one.

If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover.

I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis - there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel.

For a peaceful life, always think of peace and forget to judge others.

In Will's experience, when someone who ought to be afraid wasn't, the reason was rarely bravery. Usually it meant that they knew something you didn't.

And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.

It never really occurred to me to believe in God.

I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromised to fit into a mold of the Hollywood type.

When you look at life retrospectively you rarely regret anything that you did, but you might regret things that you didn't do.

Every endeavour pursued with passion produces a successful outcome, regardless of the result. For it is not about winning or losing – rather, the effort put forth in producing the outcome.

Psychopaths don't have that charming skill set. They definitely manipulate, but they do it through focused, unskilled means. They're more obsessive.

The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment.

When you connect to a primal idea - life, death, hunger, hope, fear - any of those primal ideas are going to translate, and I think that's the thing that I've always been attracted to in my work.