We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving through the many stages that lie between birth and death.

[N]one of us drinks the chalice of our existence to the last drop. None of us is fully obedient. Each of us falls short of the human nature entrusted to us.

4 rules i live by1. Trust none2. Respect all3. Never run 4. Fear god

The choice lay out for me. Stay on land or plunge into the icy depths of the sea. I always chose the sea.

Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s.

You want to feel like people are hiring you because they want to work with you, not because of who your parents are.

All the child-star clichés. I've tried very hard to avoid them all.

I know I can walk through the world, along the shore or under the trees, with my mind filled with things of little importance, in full self-attendance. A condition I can't really call being alive.

All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.

I've seen the slip a few times. I don't have to watch something like that to go through the pain again and again and again.

I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me...I don't know which makes me feel worse.

Ah, you know my weaknesses--my children and my horses.