Try and live your life the way you wish other people would live theirs.

Mixing with groups of people can be enjoyed, it is pleasing in a way that cannot be explained other than the temptation to become closer to one or the other.

Never gaining a good reputation is not nearly as painful as losing one.

I am a better cook than I am an actor. If I have any ego, it's about cooking. I'm one of the best cooks... and I cook in any language.

People here always said to me, Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji? Fiji is a far more civilized place than California or New York City.

I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years. I get uncomfortable being too far inland.

I am a living breathing word of GOD.

people will focus on procedures and not notice anything that isn't just part of the procedures

People talk about survival. What they mean is killing the other guy.

I've never been so sure about the rest of my life than I am in this moment. This girl is the rest of my life.

When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.

Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

The heart grows weary after a little Of what it loved for a little while.

Giving and receiving pleasure is the nature of the cosmos, the inner nature of reality.

Independent filmmaking has always been there and it's not to be forgotten.