“I've spent the last decade learning to stand firm and face my problems… or at least batter them until they're unrecognizable.”

“The church stands that it may be battered, but the fists that batter know their own impotence.”

“I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it. (Rolling Stone magazine 1997)”

“I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.”

“I had auditory sensory problems and touch sensitivity problems, I had no problems with my vision. Other people absolutely cannot stand fluorescent lighting and they're sometimes helped by a thing called the Irlen colored glasses where you try on all kinds of different pale colored glasses until it's easier to read. It stops the problem of the print jiggling on the page.”

“The main problem actors face is uncertainty caused by difficulties in finding suppliers and customers and in controlling their own firm.”

“I've fought with men and gods, I've weighed them well and found
the sea more firm than earth, the air more firm than sea,
and man's impalpable soul still yet more firm than air!”

“Even our own cadaver-bones shall not hinder us from standing our ground until the very last, proud and tired in the face of the black wall that surrounds us.”

“A battered wife is a married woman until she gets a divorce. Or until she kills the bastard.”

“My door was never locked,
Until one day a trigger come cocking.
(But now I've started learning how,)
I keep it shut.”