I don't care how hot a girl is - if she doesn't like animals, it would be a major, major problem.

You don’t always win, but every time you lose, you get better.

The environment is in us, not outside of us. The trees are our lungs, the rivers our bloodstream. We are all interconnected, and what you do to the environment ultimately you do to yourself.

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.

True statement: Live it, love it, leave the wold better off than when you got here.

I grew up as a country boy.

We're made up of energy, so who's to say you can't transmit through electrical means? If you could transmit yourself wirelessly, then it's Armageddon pretty much.

I appreciate the response and the support of fans, of people who actually don't mind watching me on screen... I just don't ever want to jeopardize that.

Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.

A thought for today: 'People change and forget to tell each other.'

I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.

Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit.

Maybe all you needed in life was the belief you could change things. Somehow. Some way.

Only a meditator is able to die consciously as life is an opportunity to prepare for death. Meditation is a death, a death of the ego.

...he was after all, a novelist...and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay.

My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky.

It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]

The more you connect to the Power within you, the more you can be free in all areas of your life.

No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.

Well, we in America are about to break up with oil. Why not break up with poverty and discrimination too?

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.