Once in a while there was some TV offer and I'd take it.

Yes, there was nothing else to do to get you high. I mean, there was, but white kids didn't hear about it.

Once in a while there was some TV offer and I'd take it.

I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as an addiction, and all my friends who smoked it, I felt they really needed help.

Marijuana. Boy, I thought that was just terrible. How could this great man do this to his life?

I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.

I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide.

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.

Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O'Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together.

It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.

My mom was a Democrat and I was scared to death that she was gonna blow it. First I was going to hell with Monroe, and now to Republican hell with Nixon.

So, in the last year, the whole cast sued for release from our contracts.

Yeah, dog was this man's best friend, for sure.

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education.

I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties.

A lot of my friends were fooling around with drugs then.

I wanted to go to regular high school - it looked like a lot of fun.

The kids put you on a pedestal. I didn't like it.

An interchange of literature is the conversation of nations.

No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things

The doctor heard my heartbeat and found out I had an irregular heartbeat. I was not symptomatic or aware of my symptoms. I had no idea that this could make me five times more likely to have a stroke than somebody who doesn't have this.

There is huge demand for artificial intelligence technologies.

The images attempt to capture scientific thought. They represent the physical manifestation of the thought process. Everything in the laboratory is a product of a stream of conscious or unconscious thought.

My mom has this ugly Santa ornament, and one year, I took it off the tree and clipped it to her pillow. We've been trading it back and forth ever since - 16 years now. I wore it to the Golden Globes and even put it in her bird feeder. As the birds eat, it's slowly revealed.

When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.

You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.

Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art.

The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.

In the past, my voice was my enemy.

Our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.

Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.

You learn who you are by unlearning who they taught you to be.

Despite my high profile on social media, I'm a private person.

I just really want to make a good show and make it as interesting as I can, and anything else is kind of above my pay grade.

Why do we work so hard to feel so terrible.

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.

I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.

Historically, Islam was hijacked about 20 or 30 years after the Prophet and interpreted in such a way that the ruler has absolute power and is accountable only to God. That, of course, was a very convenient interpretation for whoever was the ruler.

When it comes to the awards and everything, and the press, the publicity, this is all icing on the cake to me.

Royalty mostly seem like members of some anachronistic faith, like the Amish, peculiar in gilded buggies.

I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl.

During my 30 years on Wall Street, taxes on 'unearned income' have bounced up and down with regularity, and I've never detected any change in the appetite for hard work and accumulating wealth on the part of myself or any of my fellow capitalists.