That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.

That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

The first step... shall be to lose the way.

As a teenager I was very anxious. I had a lot of energy and passion that I wanted to channel into creative things, and I always felt like I wasn't achieving enough.

The key is to set realistic customer expectations and then not to just meet them but to exceed them preferably in unexpected and helpful ways.

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they're between you and God.

You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God.

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together.

Hunger is sharper than the sword.

Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the circle by which the person is surrounded. Not so with those whose opinions and feelings are an emanation from their own nature and faculties.

I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.

Whats gone and whats past help Should be past grief.

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

It's not like every actor needs to train, but an actor will either develop their process through training or through working.

I'm able to move like no one else you've ever seen in front of a camera.

I drink coffee in the morning and a few cups throughout the day. Among coffee's health benefits are lower risk of Parkinson's, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and dementia.

My e-mail address is actually my wife's e-mail address. I actually hate computers.

Great cooking is about being inspired by the simple things around you fresh markets various spices. It doesnt necessarily have to look fancy.

In a world full of lions and tigers entertaining the masses have you ever seen a wolf performing in a circus

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Our kids are actually doing what we told them to do when they sit in front of that TV all day or in front of that computer game all day. The society is telling kids unconsciously that nature's in the past. It really doesn't count anymore, that the future is in electronics, and besides, the bogeyman is in the woods.

To define oneself is to suffer duality. One must avoid defining existence and identity.

My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.

The great object is that every man be armed.