You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?"

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

Mercury poisoning sounds like a rich man's disease . . . like something you might get from the leather seats in your Lamborghini.

If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that's their fault - not yours. And it's OK to be a decent human being in this life.

If masturbation is a crime then I should be on death row.

Sometimes - this is a tough one - not everyone can handle the truth. Sometimes you have to take a beat. But if you can take that beat, and take the high road, it'll serve you in the long run.

The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.

Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.

I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside.

We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.

What's this? You're wearing the shirt of the band you're going to see? Don't be that guy.

What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.

The truest smiles are those which spread across our faces when no one's watching us.

It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

I will endanger your species like an ostrich, Hold you hostage, and crazy feed you swine sausage!

I always say I write because I have lots of questions, not because I have any answers.

The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.

We are like the phoenix," said Abuelita. "Rising again, with a new life ahead of us.

What is Yoga? Yoga is self-conquest. Self-conquest is God-Realization. He who practices Yoga does two things with one stroke: he simplifies his whole life and he gets a freee access to the Divine.