Your parents were always trying to get you to be careful when you were a kid, and that's all pervasive in this society.

What I like best about music is when time goes away.

More fun than a frog in a glass of milk.

Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.

What if all tomorrow brings is ashes and glass, and I can't tell you child, 'this too shall pass.' If all the world were windswept, cold and gray. And in the end there's nothing left to say.

The same song on a different day was a different song.

I don't get the stuff that I carry around in my head from TV, and especially I don't get the stuff that I carry around in my heart from TV.

Dynamic benign neglect.

We're just inviting adventure into our life, and adventure carries a little baggage.

I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.

If for instance, in a board meeting, if you have an idea, it better be a good idea, or you're not going to get everybody's attention.

Moving closer, Dana cupped Aidan’s face in both hands. His jaw was as smooth as it looked. His skin warm. His eyes tormented. Her pulse picked up at the contact.

As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.

Like they say, you can learn more from a guide in one day than you can in three months fishing alone.

There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.

I'm not a light-hearted person, so I can't think light-hearted at work.

Up North you are holding your own. Everyone considers themselves a comedian.

Watching my own past heartache and experience day after day - it was gut-wrenching, cathartic, beautiful, and painful. That and shooting the film in less than a month.

The remedy for the abuse of free speech is more speech.

If you have not learned to be a passionate lover, do not count your life as lived. On the day of reckoning, it will not be counted.

He was my drug, and I had no desire to kick the habit.