The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.

My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man's thinking.

My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.

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

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.

After I decided to become a Jew, only then did I learn that the Jews don't have all the money. When I found out Rockefeller and Ford were goyim, I almost resigned.

The only person I ever hurt was myself and even that I did to the minimum. If you can do that and you're still functioning, you're the luckiest person in the world.