You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That's magical. He's done a great thing.

The interesting thing about this is I don't know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about. I'm sensing something and I'm going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted - Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.

On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is -- can you win or lose like a man?

Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities. I've never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.

I believe in one day at a time; you've got TODAY, that's what you' ve got.

It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.

If something is working, don't fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.