I can describe to you the taste of government cheese.

I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.

Being poor is people wondering why you didn't leave.

Don’t discount that part of who he was just because you didn’t know it. None of us are all of who we are to any one person.

Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.

I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.

You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.