I want you to know， it isn’t always clear in the beginning because as I said I had been on television since I was 19 years old. But around ’94 I got really clear. So don’t expect the clarity to come all at once， to know your purpose right away.

重要的不是你如何跌倒，而是你如何重新站起来。

I'm not a bad guy, I'm just a guy who sometimes does bad things.

To be alive is to be in a state of constant becoming.

我无法改变我的出身或我经历的一切，所以我为什么要为造就我的事情感到羞耻？

"You have to be paranoid to survive."

The tension between standing apart and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.