One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing.

And then adds with a laugh, 'but in retrospect I think he may have been more sophisticated than we were.'

Sometimes you have to forget your principles and do what’s right.

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.

By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway.

I'm a very, very stubborn man.

My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.