Greenlights: Raucous stories and outlaw wisdom from the Academy Award-winning actor

An unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction, written by the Academy Award®-winning actor. It is a one-way ticket to the desert and a guide to catching more greenlights, realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 06 July 2023
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group

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From the Academy Award®-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.


I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me.


Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life's challenges - how to get relative with the inevitable - you can enjoy a state of success I call catching greenlights.


So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, coals and shamefuls. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops.


Hopefully, it's medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars w.

Weight: 328g
Dimension: 129 x 197 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781472280879