"No one who had never been depressed like me could imagine that the pain could get so bad that death became a star to hitch up to, a fantasy of peace someday which seemed better than any life with all this noise in my head."

“Any excuse will serve a tyrant.”

“Now, as I move through my fifties, I can be professional and domestic, creative and intellectual, patient and urgent. I have learned that we should never settle for someone else's definition of who we can be. Growing to this age, I realize, is kind of like feeling your voice deepen. It's still your voice, but it has more substance, and it sounds like it knows its own origins.”

“A lot of sources said I was born in 1917. That is incorrect. I was born in 1920. 1917 was the year the studios listed as my birth year to make me appear younger.”

Source : "A Conversation with Laraine Day, Hollywood's Girl Next Door". The New York Times Interview, June 9, 1984.

“Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ.”

“The most creative and most periods of my life that were, had the most growth, were the ones where I was perceived to be failing. Perceived success is a, is really hard 'cause it doesn't really, it's not asking you to grow, see failure is asking you to grow.”

Source : "Ethan Hawke on Stage Fright, Denzel Washington: "Don't F - With Him, Man" (Q&A)". "The Hollywood Masters" with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 8, 2015.

“One question hovers over all of us who choose to spend our lives writing: why keep doing this in a world where so many forces are aligned against us?”

“The best music you make is relevant to the culture you are in, the timeframe you are in. I want to keep it as relevant as possible.”

“All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first novel and after the five years, lacking a month, I took to finish it, I was still traveling, still a seeker.”