We each had to spend a week out at Lassie's ranch, and whoever got along best with the dog got the part.

I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide.

I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as an addiction, and all my friends who smoked it, I felt they really needed help.

Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O'Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together.

I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties.

I wanted to go to regular high school- it looked like a lot of fun.

It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.

Yeah, dog was this man's best friend, for sure.

Consciousness ain't slower than a blink of an eye.

I'm all right, " I told her. This is a lie, when you're twelve. And all the other years, too.

Quite possibly, the purpose of the universe is to provide a congenial home for self-conscious creatures who can ask profound questions and who can probe the nature of the universe itself.

Why go for something cold and dead, when you can have something hot and panting?

The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up.

Practice and enlightenment are not two.

I had never worked in television before Freaks and Geeks, and New Girl is the first time since that Ive worked on a series that is actually a series and not just a pilot.

Maybe it's God disguised as Michael Jordan.

There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin.

Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.