It's very odd, being older, because in a way it's hard to own the past, even.

Just have fun. Smile. And keep putting on lipstick.

I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary.

This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

I don’t think that because I’m not married it’s made my life any less. That old-maid myth is garbage.

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.

Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it's worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something.

Why black and white? Because color can be too demanding.

I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.

I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me.

My poems tend to be more celebratory and lyrical, and the novels so far pretty dark. Poetry doesn't seem to me to be an appropriate tool for exploring that.

When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve.

I had a marvelous baseball career and after my baseball career, there is an abundance of opportunity out there.

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

Awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are fond of and wish to encourage.

Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.

When you're not playing the hero of the story, then you have to know that you're always a foil for the good guy. I love playing that. I think that's always an interesting place to be.

We have no salaries. When one says he is from a good Catholic family and says he wants to help us, why should we refuse his offer?

I’ve kissed death a thousand times before