I am for who i was in the beginning but now is present and i exist in the future.

There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.

Oh, God above, if heaven has a taste it must be an egg with butter and salt, and after the egg is there anything in the world lovelier than fresh warm bread and a mug of sweet golden tea?