“Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.”

“But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.”

“I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.”

“I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.”

“To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.”

“I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.”

“I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.”

“So much of life, it seems, is determined by pure randomness.”

“Like most people I am smarter than some, dumber than others, skinnier than most, and fatter than a few, but none was ever more confused than I was. I flew with confusion always parallel to me, and a whole internal chase at my rear. The one matter that was not confusing to me, but seemed to escape all the others, was the fact that the only thing that was certain to become obsolete, would necessarily become wearied and worn, was the truth. I knew this in spite of the truth that I had had little truck with the truth in my life. It was not that I considered myself a resident in a den of lies, but rather that my history was shrouded and diced and soaking wet with hysteria and contradiction. Contradictions or no, my trajectory through life, though different from most, was, nonetheless, a trajectory.”

“Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.”

“Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you. ”