He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.

Pain is never added to pain. It multiplies.

Rowdy fought everybody. He fought boys and girls. Men and women. He fought stray dogs. Hell, he fought the weather. He'd throw wild punches at rain. Honestly.

I was emotionally erect.

And then she asks me how many sexual partners I've had and I say one or two depending on your definition of what I did to Custer . . .

I knew I was being an idiot. But I figured if I kept being an idiot, if I didn't actually accept the truth, then the truth would become false.

The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don’t know.

Gay people could do anything. They were like Swiss army knives.

(So I heard the boom of my fathr's rifle when he shot my best friend.) A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.(14)

Those Montana Indians were so tough that white people were scared of them. Can you imagine a place where white people are scared of Indians and not the other way around? That's Montana.

He likes to pretend he lives inside the comic books. I guess a fake life inside a cartoon is a lot better than his real life.

Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.

He could see his uncles slugging each other with such force that they had to be in love. Strangers would never want to hurt each other that badly.

That's right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent.

Seems like the cold would never go away and winter would be like the bottom of my feet but then it is gone in one night and in its place comes the sun so large and laughable.

He looked into the crowd for approval, saw his mother and father. He waved and they waved back. Smiles and Indian teeth. They were both drunk. Everything familiar and welcome. Everything beautiful.

Every book is a mystery. And if you read all the books ever written, it's like you've read one giant mystery. And no matter how much you learn, you just keep on learning there is so much more you need to learn.

Then I remember that God is really, really old. So maybe God has God arthritis. And maybe that's why the world sucks. Maybe God's hands and fingers don't work as well as they used to.

I don't think you should run through life with a real erect penis. But you should approach each book - you should approach life - with the real possibility that you might get a metaphorical boner at any point.

Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection, What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?

I ain't interested in the truth. I'm interested in the way things should be.

(I think Rowdy might be the most important person in my life. maybe more important than my family.) Can your best friend be more importamt than your family? (24)

But I'm also addicted to books. And I know there has never been a human being or a television show, no matter how great, that could measure up to a great book.

For the rest of our lives, all we can hear are our names chanted over and over, until we are deaf to everything else.

Funny how a little politeness can change people's minds.

If you’re good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can’t be wrong.

That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.

Once you make a studio 700 million dollars or so, or whatever the insane number is, then they finally seem to trust you, no matter how off-the-wall your project is.

I'm not a star, I'm an actor.

I'm not a celebrity, I've kind of been under the radar, has kept it easier for me to maintain a career.

I'm Richie Rich. I land in New York, secretly thinking I'm like the coolest guy in the world.

I'm a call-sheet junkie. I love being on set. So, the hardest thing for me is dealing with all this idle time. That's when I get into trouble.

Everybody's got stories. I don't want to not have stories.

That's one thing I never had to do on a Mike Bay set is sit around and pontificate about the next scene; there's no time for it. You're already in the next scene.

When you're working with the best of the best, I'm not gonna put that on hold so I can work with people who studied the best of the best.

I was planning on going to Yale to theater school.

I come from French Cajun Jewish people.

Nobody strives to lose.

The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.

My mom is at my house every day, and she nags me about everything, especially hygiene.

I'm not that smooth.

It's really easy to fall for someone on-set, but in the end you know, it's a representative and it's not really them.

If I want to party, I'll party at my house.

Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.

The comic book world is a tough business.

I feel like I'm really honest in my interviews, to a fault. I've lost friends over it. Major friends. And I'm heartbroken about that.

As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery.

Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.

Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor.

Any time you're a type, your career's over.