I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is.

Eight times a week, I got to be a gay man, a remarkable gay man, and every night, that felt as full, as true, as passionate, and as authentic as I ever felt in my life.

Life is hard. It is. And it's like, I don't want anybody feeling any pain.

Part of me has always wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe or any Fifties Hollywood starlet. On screen, they seemed so sexy and simple and looked after. In real life, I'm none of those things. But I'd...

I find it more consoling to think of myself as little than to think of myself as big. I think I've gotten that from animals, particularly dogs. Dogs live such a modest life, and they don't live long,...

I think you have different soulmates throughout your life.

I've never eaten a strawberry in my life. I have no desire to do that.

I'm not going to walk around at 28 stone until I'm 48. My plan is to win the World's Strongest Man, walk away gracefully, and live a long life.

We're just a bubble in a boiling pot.

Music is life, that's why our hearts have beats.

If you're not getting it perfect, life is still going to go around. The world still turns. It's going to be OK. Tomorrow is a new day.

There has been nothing more impactful on my life and meaningful to me than the introduction of Christ. That, hands down, blows away every joke I've ever written.

At some point, I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it; that you need to agree to the entire experience, to the full spectrum of what happens.

It's nice to have someone to come home to and get the honest truth about all aspects of life.

Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.

Here are a few of the actors who have brought my novels to TV life: Bill Pullman, Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand, Julian Sands, Gena Rowlands, Rob Lowe, Julia Ormond, Chelsea Hobbs, Tate Donovan,...

Either I choose to behave or live a life of someone else, or I choose to be myself and live the life the way I want.

What skills I lacked in, say, math or science, I like to think I made up for in my ability to read people and situations with great clarity. I therefore considered myself as a sort of valued...

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

I look at my little girl and I wonder what she's going to be and what she's going to do and what is it that leads girls certain directions in life. I think a lot of that goes back to what kind of...

Corporations are created by the people, acting through their governments. We grant them corporate charters that confer certain legal rights and privileges, like the ability to enter into contracts,...

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn.

I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is fleeting doesn't mean it isn't valuable. If the only criterion of value is whether...

I have a great wife and it's very easy to be romantic because it makes her happy and then my life is so much better when she's happy.

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.