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

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.

In his first term, President Barack Obama played a cautious manager navigating the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression and cleaning up the messes left by President George W. Bush in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971.

I am a student of cinema, and I love filmmaking of all kinds.

We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.

The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image.

Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti.

I'm not loved by Hillary Clinton... and I don't love her either.

It's counterproductive. The problem with sentimentality is that it kills the emotion.

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

In love, the one who runs away is the winner.

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don't at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

That's it! Stretch way beyond your perceived limitations. Go for yours like you own it already, because you truly do.

Coming back in that AFC Championship Game against the Steelers, that was a poignant moment for me for a lot of reasons - the magnitude of the game and having not been able to play for quite a while and to be able to get on the field for that game. That one stands out.

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a little extra meat on there. If you like them thin-boned, then that's okay, too.

What I don't want to become numb to is wasting those taxpayer dollars.

Live and learn

So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius' wife: on the contrary, I have refused even to listen to those who spoke to me of her beauty.

It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.

There's every reason to think SSRIs blunt your ability to fall and stay in love.

The world goes on, you go on and you change. You want to show the fans those changes, and you want to be able to verbalize them.

I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself.

Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.

Human nature can find no there helper than love.