I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.

I preferred sewing to bossing little children.

I'm past the point of no return,

My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.

I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do