I think women are excellent social critics.

I'm a real workaholic.

I kind of didn't believe the doctors when they came over and they said you're not going to be able to walk again. I'm sorry to tell you this. I thought who is this guy? I just was so impatient with the whole thing. I knew I was going to walk again. I knew that I was going to do that.

They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.

The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist - that it's a godlike thing. You are the ultimate authority. There is no other ultimate authority.

I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail.

People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.