So when I was 13, I basically left home and never returned and lived at home again. I would come home for a week at Christmas and two weeks in the summer only.

My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way.

We were just a gaggle of kids, and everybody played together and had a good time. You know how kids can be completely horrible; abusive but fun. But anyway, it was a nice childhood.

I studied with the idea of becoming a Catholic priest.

Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother.

I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it.

I was born in Queens, New York, which is a suburb of New York City.

I was born in New York.

But I discovered that people like me -- they do, you know, if you like them -- and then it was all right.

Sacred soul searches to know the truth.

The lightning said to the oak tree: ‘Stand aside, or take what is coming to you!

I think it takes much greater courage to create things to be gone than to create things that will remain

The test of your character is what it takes to stop you.

God has arranged everything in the universe in consideration of everything else.

Most importantly fighters in my day knew the most important art in boxing - feinting.

You stink like a faerie, all flowers and sunshine and evil manipulation.

A man must serve his time to every trade, Save censure-critics all are ready made. Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote With just enough learning to misquote.

But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.