I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night.

The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing.

I think we should be passionately curious about what we do.

Living a simpler life has turned out to be one of the keys to being more awake and healthy.

My problems aren't so different from anybody else.

I spent a lifetime giving my power away, assuming that everybody knew better what was right for me than me. And then there comes a point in your life you go, Oh, wait a second! There's an a-ha moment when you realize that the only person that can delegate your future is you.

When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.