I'm too direct and too unsparingly impatient.

You can't take a crash course in serenity.

I think materialism has trumped a lot of stuff, but I don't think it has trumped the heart, especially when it comes to (a person's) last thought.

I'm very aware, but I'm very naïve. When you are really naïve and expecting safety and expecting the best, you don't feel you're taking risks. You can get smacked a little, but usually it works out pretty well. I would say that, as much as you can instill your open-minded naivety, if you're basically open minded, then you can do damn near anything.

The uninvestigated life is not worth living. I don't want to live that way.

To release others from the expectations we have of them is to really love them.

I had a video made of my recent knee operation. The doctor said it was the best movie I ever starred in.