To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness.

The future has to do with fear. Don't attempt to come up here. Don't attempt to go forward, you were nobody, you are nobody, and you'll always be nothing, so don't even think about coming here because if you do, something awful will happen to you.

Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.

I was not a good father in my first marriage. Although there are ways of deserting the family without leaving physically, I was deserted in my head. I was always out, always in the saloons, always drinking, always messing about.

Here am I, a human being and that has a body that is getting old. And I only have one, I can't trade it in.

I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.

Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.