I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.

I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

I'm about as healthy as a person can be. I quit smoking seven or eight years ago.

I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interesting, creative. And what am I gonna do to make that happen?

If you just work on your upper body, you're not going to be a full-range dancer or performer. You've got to work in all directions as much as you possibly can.

Sometimes I think candor is the only kindness.

Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.

Scripts are kind of a bare bones type of reading material.

I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.

I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

Maxim 4: Close air support covereth a multitude of sins.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Lothaire is very much alive.”“You swear?”“Often. Though not as much as foul-mouthed Regin. I try not to in front of Bertil.” She petted the bat.“I meant—will Lothaire live?”“He will.

The spirit of advaita is not to keep away from anything, but to keep in tune with everything

I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida.

I've always been in a rebel.

It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.

Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.

history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.

Like a wooden cottage of a lovely forest, leave yourself to the silence!