“Therefore all childish fear must be put away.”

My first job as a kid was going from door to door selling Christmas cards, to raise money for my grandmother’s hip replacement. Because, you know… You break it, you buy it.

I was bad, but I was one of the kids that never got caught. If anyone ever knew I did something, it was because I told them. ‘Cause I’m a really good liar, so I end up snitching on myself.

The ego is like a kid in the basement: It’s best to keep him busy.

The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.

I didn’t like children. I didn’t think of myself as a child. I didn’t like any of the things other children were interested in.

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we’ve always had: work, or prison.

The family was ordained of God that children might be trained up for himself; it was before the church, or rather the first form of the church on earth.

You go to a truck stop and there are key chains with names on them, and there’s no Finneas. There’s no Billie. They’re little things, but as a kid, you just feel weirdly ostracized.