Well, I'm... first and foremost I'm a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater.

I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field

I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam me up!

A lot of people don't know that I'm a singer - that's my thing, really.

I try to get on stage whenever I can. I'm always trying to be involved in the theater, doing something on stage, whenever I have downtime. I'm always looking for it.

Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.

The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age

On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married

I wanted to be an actor because it gave me the opportunity to express myself in ways I wasn't comfortable expressing myself, as a kid growing up in St. Louis.

The reason why most of actors got into acting was so that we could become other people and have fun with being somebody else.

The guy that picked me up at the airport in 1985 when I was out in L.A. for my first audition was selling a script. I was a nobody coming off a plane to read for a new show.

you write your best lyrics when you most vulnerable

I was looking down the road of "life gone by" and I realized this road of life is not as long as it looks. Travel with caution and maximize every mile. It can be a beautiful journey.

Good tells us that our agenda is the agenda of the person next to us.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population density was too thin to support major backlist retailers.

I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.

It's great to have gray hair. Ask anyone who's bald.

Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.

If there's comfort involved, it's probably not for me.