My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever.

Evaluate. Long experience had taught me to evaluate and assess. When the unexpected gets dumped on you, don’t waste time. Don’t figure out how or why it happened. Don’t recriminate. Don’t figure out whose fault it is. Don’t work out how to avoid the same mistake next time. All of that you do later. If you survive.

It's always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem.

Imagine the uproar if the Federal government tried to make everyone wear a radio transmitter around their neck so we can keep track of their movements. But people happily carry their cell phones in their purses and pockets.

I'm not a vagrant... I'm a hobo. Big difference.

No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.

The third guy was different. He was what you got when you ate squirrels for four generations. Smarter than a rat and tougher than a goat, and jumpier than either one.