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

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

And, of course, they've always condemned dancing. You know, you might touch a member of the opposite sex. And you might get excited and you might do something natural.

I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.'

The English wouldn't give you the steam of their piss.

I can't go back. The past won't go away in this family.

I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable.