We are loved if we love, another truth we always seem to forget. ...Loving requires so much courage and so little expectation.

We cannot decide to love. We cannot compel anyone to love us. There's no secret recipe, only love itself. And we are at its mercy--there's nothing we can do.

It takes only one word to hurt a woman, a matter of seconds, one stupid, impatient blow of the crop. But winning back her trust takes years. And sometimes there isn't the time.

Oh, merciless freedom, you continue to overwhelm me! You demand that I challenge myself and feel ashamed, and yet continue to feel so outrageously proud to live a life full of my desires.

There are women who only look at another woman's shoes and never at her face.And others who always look women in the face and only occasionally at their shoes.

Reading makes you impudent. Oh yes, unknown father, so it does.

Often it’s not we who shape words, but the words we use that shape us.

I'm looking for what I was capable of before... Or to be more precise, I'm trying to see whether I'm still capable of it.

And yes, being lovesick is like being in mourning. Because you die, because your future dies and you with it...There is a hurting time. It lasts for so long. But it gets better. I know that now.

It's amazing how close you are to your essential self as a kid, he thought, and how far from it you drift the more you strive to be loved.

Time. It rubs the rough edges that hurt us smooth.

I rocketed a commanding finger to the heavens and it rained stardust upon our young heads.

Panic---a deep abiding, free-floating anxiety, often without any reason or logical basis.

I do think the U.S. has a moral and political leadership role to play.

No one can bother you unless you agree with them.

I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I somehow wound up at the National Theatre, though, and then I was definitely on my way.

I remember writing 'All I Want Is You' and hoping it would get me out of trouble. I haven't stopped writing songs or getting into trouble since.

Pressure is an illusion, but I like that illusion of pressure.

It's challenging as an actor to let go but I had some pleasure out of it too. To not have the effort of having to present myself is quite liberating.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared!