From the Academy Award®-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with rauc ous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with g reater satisfaction.I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to w ork out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that ridd le for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrow s, 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 mor e 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, prescripti ons, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bu mper 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 l ife's challenges - how toget relative with the inevitable- you can enjoy a s tate of success I call 'catching greenlights.'So I took a one-way ticket to th e desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. Thi s is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shame fuls. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. Getting away withs, getting cau ghts, 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 without needing your pilot's license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears.It's a love letter.T o life.It's also a guide to catching more greenlights-and to realising that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too.Good luck.