Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling.

Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.

Only the one who walks his own way can't be overtaken.

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.

Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.

The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel to much.

All I want to be is normally insane.

Tell me, do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.

If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can offer.

Every time you get knocked down you get up stronger.

God will use anybody that will show diligence in his work

And if the earth Gods wreak vengeance on the sinless and the sinful alike, then this further destruction cannot be punishment for sins, but is in the way of all nature.

Sanity is for the weak

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

I tend to write poetry that is rich in data of various sorts. The lyric poem isn't perfectly suited to accommodating such data, so I've had to find new ways to say everything that I want to say.

There has to be a woman, but not much of a one. A good horse is much more important.

Life is good and is always trying to do us a good turn if we will only allow it to do so.

We're just not ready for the retirement of the Baby Boomers. And we'd better prepare for that.

At the end of the day, perhaps the best argument against capital punishment may be that it is an issue beyond the limited capacity of government to get things right.

A new world is only a new mind.