Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve.

When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.

The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.

I don't absolve my father completely of his responsibility for what he did to us I feel compassion, maybe. He had his demons. But I still can't understand how a man can walk away from children. And leave them to starve, as we nearly did, if it wasn't for my mother going out and begging.

Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve.

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.

The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.