Imagine if you could actually be that happy? That would be powerful, man. People would be tunneling under the street to avoid you. They'd go 'Oh, man - is that happy guy still out there?'

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

My soul is not contained within the limits of my body; my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.

Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up & turn toward the light & that makes them beautiful.

I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.

We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

When the road gets dark - And you can no longer see - Just let my love throw a spark - And have a little faith in me.

I think that ties in with issues of identity as well - that sometimes there are parts of us we want to hide, and then there's other times we say, "You know what? Nope. Done hiding that part."

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.

I lost to a better player who played some courageous tennis and deserved to win.

The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.

Hollywood is yesterday, forever catching up tomorrow with what's happening today.