I think were struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.

When you're a father, you know exactly where your heart really is. There's no question of it, no doubt. That part of your life has no second guessing.

There's nothing like castrating 20 pigs before lunch. I did that during school whenever the need arose. They'd call out the agricultural class and put us in trucks to go help the local farmers.

It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.

My career has been a bit strange. I dont think it took the normal route.

As an actor, it's fun to play guys who aren't just locked into a male pattern, but a lot of guys you're asked to play are fairly macho and have a certain rigid standard they're living by.

Trying different things is very important to me. I see people and want to wear their clothes and drive in their cars for awhile. Thats probably one reason I became an actor.

There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything.

I like to spread myself out. Since I was a kid, I always recognized some void.

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

I've been toldThat it's not enough toWish for dreams, that IHave to work themInto reality.

Encouragement is a divine awaken of the soul.

It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

I have a swagger coach that helps me and teaches me different swaggerific things to do.

Reality has always proved to be much more sophisticated and subtle than any preconceived philosophy.

Occasionally, I go off the rails. I once nearly killed somebody once - it wasn't funny. I am a lunatic. The pressure of work, the pressure - everyone has a stop valve, and I don't have one.

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.

I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.