I go through phases where I'll overuse words. S.E. Hinton, who wrote The Outsiders - she and I have been in contact for the 50th anniversary of the book - and she said, "You still owe me the 10 dollars that we bet that you couldn't stop saying the word 'gnarly.'"

Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.

I have, on the other hand, felt ill will from various people in the industry and the press.

We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.

To go from "gnarly" to "literally," that shows I'm growing up, right?

In no way would I ever assume when I meet some girl that she wants to sleep with me; that doesn't enter my mind. I think somebody who did assume that would be such an insufferably arrogant person that you couldn't be around him.

In school, I had two or three best guy friends, but mostly if I was just hanging, I'd like to talk to the girls, because they were more interesting. I think they were smarter.