For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way.

The first piece of art that I ever bought-when I could afford it-was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just getting out of doing commercial work and more into art. It's a sketch of a young guy's face. I guess the gallery that I bought it from thought I would like it because the young guy kind of looked like James Dean.

I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.

What I hated was doing what somebody in LA thought Jeff Foxworthy ought to do.

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

When I was 14, I thought I was the coolest kid in school because I told everyone the jokes in FHM.

You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought.

You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.

As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.

For years that may mean imitation. Then, one day, it is like a door opening, and a new thought comes in. Why not try this instead. Suddenly he is doing something original, almost in spite of himself.

To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together.