Judgment comes from experience – and experience comes from bad judgment.

Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.

My experiences have taught me a lot and I’m happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

Most people go through life dreading they’ll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They’ve already passed their test in life. They’re aristocrats.

Any experience can be transformed into something of value.

A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.

Experience tells you what to do confidence allows you to do it.

Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience.