I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.

I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.

In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.

Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries

Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.

There's plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.