[In 1951] we were also told that the Russians could be parachuting from planes over our town at any time. These were the same Russians that my uncles had fought alongside only a few years earlier. Now they had become monsters who were coming to slit our throats and incinerate us. It seemed peculiar. Living under a cloud of fear like this robs a child of his spirit. It's one thing to be afraid when someone's holding a shotgun on you, but it's another thing to be afraid of something that's just not quite real.

You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you.

I'm a liberal to a degree, I want everybody to be free. But if you think that I'll let Barry Goldwater move in next door.

I'm sittin' on my watch so I can be on time.

Time is an ocean, but it ends at the shore.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Music attracts the angels in the universe.