Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.

Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.

I've had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people - you could almost call them marriages, even though I didn't marry. But it was costly.

Vanity: my favorite sin.

Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren't different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing.

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.

I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.