Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.

Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair.

There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.

Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp.

I was stationed at a Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego from 1965 to 1967.

I always love to come to Austin.

I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.

It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.

Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.

I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.

What is your major malfunction?

The Holy Bible is sacred book.

I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone.

I do mostly portraits. So it's just people's faces, not really any ideas.

Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.

Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.

Everything we put in and on our bodies must be nutritious and safe.

I went out on my own, years ago, to try to create some additional choices in a parallel universe.

While the question of who killed President Kennedy is important, the question 'what killed him' is more important.

Growing up, I didn't dream of being nothing, of living in the ghetto my whole life. I wanted to get out.

I'm a guitarist by background. That's what I used to do for sessions when I was younger and that sort of thing. We have several pianos in the house and I tend to just sit and fiddle around.