I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

The result may be important but it’s not the actual measure. The measure is the feeling you have made contact with something.

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

You are where you are because the generation before you paid attention to their broken heart.

I've never been starstruck but I may have wanted to strike a star once or twice.

A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living.

People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the world...But you have to do what's right for you.

I played a bass player and a singer in a movie once, but I totally lip-synced to everything.

I'm not in the being-annoyed business.

There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride.

I change myself a lot. Some roles you don't want to be big, bulky, muscle-y guy and some roles you want to be a lean, marathon-runner physical type. And some roles you just don't want to be in shape.