If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very young thinking, I confess, but it is the seminal part of my life.

Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

I've always fought against being controlled and manipulated and stomped upon by circumstances.

I have given a name to my pain, and it is Batman.

I want my kids to have a deep, inner feeling that it's alright to be happy, that you don't have to be constantly manufacturing problems that you don't really have.

Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

In the real world there's an after-effect of disappointment if you lose an argument. But if, to begin with, you're set up not to have this particular autonomy, then you're not disappointed.