“It’s almost as important as Shakespeare’s to be or not to be which deals with death.”

I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.

If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.

A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.

I’m a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that.

Religion has the same goal

In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.

When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York,

Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it – it can be salvaged.

Married life is an existence with bars around it.

To date or not to date that is the question.

The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do.

I love going to the factories of La Plata, or Little Havana and seeing them roll cigars. I get excited.

The mass market eventually assimilates that which is innovative or revolutionary.

Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.

So, if anatomy is destiny then testosterone is doom.

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect.

When I grew up in the ’70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn’t think you had a choice.

What’s interesting to me is drama and conflict. Things aren’t interesting without conflict and resolution of conflict – or striving towards a resolutions of conflict.

I don’t. I almost never get in shape for a movie, even though I know it would be a good career move.

I wanted to be more hands on. Otherwise, every time you finish acting in a movie you have to almost go and beg people for the next job.

Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

Relaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.

Life becomes almost magical. The illusion of the “me” is no longer in the way. Life begins to flow, and you never know where it will take you.

To accept the degree of surrender needed to literally let go of all experience and all self-reference. Even in great revelations, there is almost always something that wants to claim, “I am this.”