By the time you get close to the answers, it's nearly all over.

In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.

In my life there were a lot of situations where I could have been killed or some officer might have been killed chasing me, a lot of things could be different. Now, you know that's experience you can't buy. And it's there in my rearview mirror and I can refer to it in my writing. I have the experience to talk about things some people only imagine.

Faith is the only way we're going to make it. None of us are smart enough to do it on our own.

Before the Beatles and yesterday, when a man could still work and still would.

It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.

They shaved a little piece of bone off my small toe. You see, you balance yourself a certain way and this toe had grown under the other ones. So he cut it loose, where I could balance myself and it makes me walk straight.