I've never outgrown my childhood.

I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, its governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.

Great fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.

But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.

People who know, know. The others, it really doesn't matter.

I didnt want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.

In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe.

Instead of your life just disappearing or being wasted or spent, you are racing to make sure that it is being converted, making sure that it is being actually invested.

The courage to continue is the sureness of success.

We will paste upon the curled pages wordsLike charming and romantic and sentimentalForgetting that charming is witchcraftRomantic is loveAnd sentiment is what makes us human

Innocence eroded into nightmare.All because of very bad touch.Love, corrupted.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Probably the best thing that happened to me was going nuts. Nobody knew who I was until that happened.

I never wanted my books to be mistaken for poetry or fiction books; I wanted to write reference books. But instead of referring to something, they refer to nothing.

Each of us is the sum of our scars.

My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness.

Love hath made thee a tame snake