I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.

The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.

I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.

Nothing makes sense, not that much of the world ever did." Quote from the book: "UnHoly Pursuit: The Devil on My Trail.

The most powerful teaching of children is by the example of their parents.

I built myself a house of glass:It took me years to make it:And I was proud. But now, alas!Would God someone would break it.

I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs.

Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!

I look for something unique, and I look for people who haven't reached their potential. I think I'm pretty good at developing talent.

I am still comfortable with my body, because I'm like, What's not to be comfortable with? I mean, it's just my nature.

I go to the real world, not the Internet.