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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Have faith in yourself. All the power is in your biology already. Be conscious of that power and bring it out. Remember, truth is indestructible, virtue is indestructible, purity is indestructible.

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

It is in the best interest of the rich to preserve poverty.

You are arrogant, " says the cat, "and you are in love. Either one of these things alone might be overcome, but together, they make for a stubborn combination.

At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.

It is easier to gaze into the sun, than into the face of the mystery of God. Such is its beauty and its radiance.

Senators will do what they think they need to do to represent their constituents

No decision in business provides greater potential for the creation of wealth (or its destruction, come to think of it) than the choice of which innovation to back.

Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.