You know what he taught me? He taught me to feel more. He taught me to give myself over to feelings. And now that's all I have. I'm swamped by them. I can't breathe because I feel so damn much.

..I learned that there's a kind of love which must feel like coming home, ...

They're all true. They all could have happened.

I have always thought that all philosophical debates are ultimately between the partisans of structure and the partisans of "goo.

Technology enables us to work every minute of every day from any place on the planet.

Life has a vendetta against writers. It does everything in it's power to get in the way of our craft. Maybe it thinks we embellish too much?

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

You got to realise that when I was 20 years old, I had a house, a Mercedes, a Corvette and a million dollars in the bank before I could buy alcohol legally.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

You have a "turn" every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.

It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction ... Would you ever put that in the headline for a male star?

When I think of Spirit, I think of that mysterious force that pulls us into being, into becoming, into love. That can get political rather quickly.

Twice a week I would receive injections or IV's of Factor VIII which clotted the blood and then broke it down.