Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.

One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.

It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

Easy enough to dismiss others' problems when you had none of your own.

Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles.

People make one happy, not houses.

Love has no place in a lawyer's office.

The warrior is Here, Now.

I thought you were more like GI Joe, but now that I know about the cape, you sound more like Superman." Mia Kensington to Colby Winters

I've had a wordless phase, and that's still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally meant that way, and you can hear that in the way it is sung.

You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine.

You find out so many interesting things when you're not on drugs.

With dates I like to cater a girl. We do whatever she likes. If she was open to what I wanted to do, it probably wouldn't be a dull date, because I am a jock.

Each Fall the graves of my grandfathers call me, the brown hills and red gullies of mississippi send out their electric messages, galvanizing my genes.

I can cook; but not well. I figure I have six years until my children discover what their friends' mothers make for dinner.

The tougher the times, the more clarity you gain about the difference between what really matters and what you only pretend to care about.

The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.