I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

I don't think of myself as a TV actor. I think of myself as a film, television and Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway actor.

It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have employed before.

I always said a good despotism was the best form of government

This is what I love to see--different branches of law enforcement at each other's throats. It gives the bad guys the head start they need, which in turn gives us all job security.

Every country has a cultural legacy and religious practices for reasons that I don’t believe fall under the category of superstition, something that a religious scholar should understand.

She is amazingly creative, bringing so much more to a song than just a singer. She is a first-class musician and the most gracious person in the world.

That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery.

A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.

America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.

Stormy in love, stormy in interviews, breakfast in bed - that's me, love.

I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even put a stopper on death.