Time only goes in that one direction.

The point of living in the world is just to stay interested.

I wasn't glad that I hadn't died. And I wasn't sad that I hadn't. I wasn't anything.

If you love something, know that it will leave on a day you are far from ready.

I thought at times that poetry might be an elegant way of screaming.

Like many parents in middle age, he's quick to spot changes in the world, slow to note shifts in his own perspective.

The eyes of the Armenians speak long before the lips move and long after they cease to.

Instead of becoming the world’s expert on Buddhism, just let go, let go, let go.

There's no better way to unplug than having children. Changing diapers is one of the most leveling things that has ever happened to me.

Once I went into songwriting, I figured I had to - I couldn't be a hellfire rock 'n' roller. But I could write hellfire lyrics.

I've got life for a subject because as life starts to drain away, you start seeing very clearly what life is, for the first time.

I'm wild again, beguiled again, a whimpering, simpering child again. Bewitched, bothered, bewildered am I.

An annoyed and joyless Christian is the devil's greatest billboard.

We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors

It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.

Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.