You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.

If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.

I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.

Mark Twain was an artist working at the highest level. He wrote a book, his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, that put America on the world stage for literature. It's almost as if, if you start reading that book as a racist, you cannot finish it and still be a racist.

I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates when he said...I drank what?

I think spiritual perception comes from natural and healthy relationship to the land and I've had that. I get an easy, automatic sense of myself in nature, a wholeness and I feel nowhere else. I think people should live where praying is most immediate. That`s why I live in New Mexico. The physical terrain, the feeling, the environment and culture improve my life just by waking up there.

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.