what is a german? to say a man is a german, what is that? does it tell you if he is a good man? or a bad man? no, my friend, it tells you nothing about a man to say he is german. a man must think what he is inside. what he is on the outside, how can this matter?

I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor.

Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state.

I am essentially an entertainer and a storyteller.

sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency

Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.

It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something.