The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.

I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family is a lot more important than writing.

I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.

I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.

That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me them; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted.

Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.