"I don’t need no surgery, or tattoos. I already got the marks and scars of the Universe on my face and body."

“When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what youre doing is not any kind of public show, until youre ready for it.”

“You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill. I will choose a path thats clear. I will choose Freewill.”

“'The New York Times' thing... I think any actor would be thrilled to be profiled in that paper.”

“There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded and consistent defense of freedom unless that defense is rooted in moral principle. In concentrating on the ends of choice, the conservative, by neglecting the conditions of choice, loses that very morality of conduct with which he is so concerned. And the libertarian, by concentrating only on the means, or conditions, of choice and ignoring the ends, throws away an essential moral defense of his own position.”

“What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.”

“A man is what he does with his attention and mine is not for sale.”

Source : John Ciardi (1984). “Selected poems”, Univ of Arkansas Pr

“I'm a really humble person and I'm a really on-the-go person. For me, it's never that serious.”

Source : Source: gothamist.com

“Let me just tell you this: I love polyester.”