I tell my children, shut up and let me speak. What I've learned, I have been married for 45 years and in my own family It is that I've learned to stop being judgmental, to listen.

Never make any reference to the other person's family. "You're just like your - " because that is out, completely.

When I'm writing in long hand, it just goes on and on and on. When I was in the saloon business, I would just greet people and talk to them and avoid taxes, and getting behind the bar. What else.

Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.

I wonder what I can do about war. Is it the destiny of human kind to eventually wipe ourselves out with these weapons of mass destruction? Are we stupid to think that we can control them?

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

I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.