"If I don't get food in my mouth, I'm still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long as I don't get arrested for indecent exposure, I'm happy. I'm worried about keeping my hair, not how it's combed."

"I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it."

"Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk."

"Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it."

"There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me."

"I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to."

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."

"Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable."