I tend to stay up late, not because I’m partying but because it’s the only time of the day when I’m alone and don’t have to be performing.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

I want to be relaxed in my personal life. I really don’t like to be hassled.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

What a nice night for an evening.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

We are a nation of communities… a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

I’m very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.

I sell escapism.

I don’t have many friends; I’m very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I’ve never been really close to anyone.

During the season, most of my time to unwind is in my car ride home. When I get home, it’s being with my kids.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

Mostly I stay at home from the morning until 5 P.M., and I only go out for fittings and shoots because I work at home. I like to be alone.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

I am a bit of a solitude person – a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don’t have any major friendships or relationships with people.

I have no trouble sleeping.

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

I owe my solitude to other people.

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don’t know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.

I like to take it easy.

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‚CSI‘ and ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ episodes with pints of ice cream.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

I’m definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working – if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.

I’ve always been a loner.

I’m an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I’ll go stand in the corner.

I love to be alone, and I did as a child as well, especially if I was outside.

I don’t go to parties in general.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

I am an introvert; privately I am very shy, and I don’t speak unless I have to.

There’s nothing more comfortable or leisurely than having a pair of Ugg slippers on in the house.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

I became a beach bum.

I’m really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I’m out; I’m asleep for takeoff.

Mind over mattress.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.