The greatest of all disorders is to think we are whole and need no help.

And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map or figure out the tip on a restaurant bill, I might start to tear up a little bit.

How it shaped my perception is this: I have become so indelibly identified as a character in pop culture that it has forced me to go deeply within myself to get a very very rock solid sense, to myself, of who I am.

If you going to live by a certain code - as Bob Dylan said, you gotta serve somebody.

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.

The Devil never tempts us with more success than when he tempts us with a sight of our own good actions.

Labor, therefore, is a duty from which no man living is exempt, without forfeiting his right to his daily bread.