The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

I don't have many easy songs.

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

My handicap? Man, I am a one-eyed, black Jew! That's my handicap!

I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

In terms of addiction, there is nothing more powerful than men's toys.