I was a good student in the subjects that I wanted to be good in. The curriculum in my section was excellent.

Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

I came out of school one day, and there was this pulp magazine. It was a rainy day, and it was floating toward the sewer in the gutter. So I pick up this pulp magazine, and it's Wonder Stories, and it's got a rocket-ship on the cover, and I'd never seen a rocket-ship.

The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.

Life at best is bittersweet.

Aw, where we come from the Anti-Life Equation is one of many others--almost as awesome!! But they merely exist!!

I've done things that I wouldn't ordinarily seem capable of doing. And I've proven myself in situations where there's life and death at stake. And so, I can live with myself knowing that it's not a matter of guts or anything like that. It's a matter of willingness to go the length, to transcend yourself.