Spoiled. That's all it's about - can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that.

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

Spoiled. That's all it's about - can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that.

One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

I realize at one point, that I was being followed, and then I began to see the surveillance that was going past the road on my house. And so, these cars began to surveil me. People began to follow me around, and it did, it was very disrupting to think that your privacy was being violated, and for no reason that I could come up with.

I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.

Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.

You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence.

Old as she was she still missed her daddy sometimes.

Contempt mates well with pity.

Spoiled. That's all it's about can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that.

At some point around '94 or '95, 'Rolling Stone' said that guitar rock was dead and that the Chemical Brothers were the future. I think that was the last issue of 'Rolling Stone' I ever bought.

I was a big fan of John Cassavetes, his wife, Gena Rowlands, and that era of filmmaking which was about realism and which represented the antithesis of the dreamy escapism you found in musicals.

To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.

My insurance provider probably wouldn't allow me to go into a mosh pit anymore. My brain is insured by Lloyd's of London, you know what I'm saying?

My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting.

I grew up watching Westerns.

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.

The road to success has to have obstacles because, at the end of the day, when success comes, it will be that much better.

It helps to know how to lose. You know it is not the end of the world, and you pick yourself up and move ahead.

Whatever you are doing, put your whole mind on it. If you are shooting, your mind should be only on the target. Then you will never miss. If you are learning your lessons, think only of the lesson.

I saw an Emmy ad that AMC took out with all the 'Breaking Bad' nominees' photos, and there's my picture from the show. It's like World's Ugliest Man - I'm an automatic winner in that category.

I learned my phrasing from Frank. I loved him so much.

I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.

When I'm coming offstage after my show, I'm thinking about what's on my TiVo.

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.

I sang the National Anthem at Dodger Stadium - at a baseball game - which was crazy; there was, like, 60,000 people there, which is a huge deal in America - singing the National Anthem.

I don't think that we’re meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith.

As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister.

There are two reasons why we don't trust people: first - we don't know them, second - we know them.

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.

I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.

I think that whatever size or shape body you have, it's important to embrace it and get down! The female body is something that's so beautiful. I wish women would be proud of their bodies and not diss other women for being proud of theirs!

I'm such an L.A. boy, I love hanging out by the beach and throwing some steaks on the grill.

For me, one of the hallmarks of a really great book is that I'm seeing it in my head while I'm reading.