I was probably finding my feet more than anybody. I really have to say I was more obsessed with myself faltering than anybody else.

I know I wasn't as handsome as some other guys, but I was OK with that.

All over the world, young men and young women will always dream dreams.

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.

The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.

I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me.

Don't let people treat you like a cigarette, they only use you when they're bored and step on you when they're done. Be like drugs, let them die for you.

I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.

No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.

I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.

To be loved, I think, is the thing that gets you up in the morning.

On one of the right-side-up pages show wrote, with some difficulty, Know what roots know: there is only one tree.

Literature, art, science, and religion degenerate when polemical struggle supplants the independent creation of ideas.

Humor enables one to live in the midst of tragic events without becoming a tragic figure.

Fathers can find great inspiration in faith.

I am single and happy.

The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask.

The cause of so much suffering and pain and one of the impediments to our spiritual progress, is the conditioning of expecting things to go our way, even in our spiritual life.

Certain things in Mozart will and can never be excelled.

Hate pollutes the mind.