Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.

Some idiotic things are well worth doing.

Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.

Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.

Hurts not transformed are transferred. Let your hurts bring on healing.

We are only flesh and blood. We are only chemicals mixing and circuits firing, sometimes in disarray. We are, every last one of us, plagued by useless want.

In reality, nobody gets successful in America by being lazy.

Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as possible.

Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.

If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.

I sleep way too much and I read tremendously.

But it’s compounded by the fact that I love animals and feel better not eating them.

In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being.

The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.