I had no desire to be an upward-mobile-rising yuppie with a trophy wife, a trophy house, a trophy car. I wasn't looking for any of those things. I already had what I wanted.

I had no desire to be a star and a star's responsibility.

Roxanne Quimby wanted money and power, and I was just a pillar on the way to that success.

I realized I had it made because you don't have to destroy anything to get honey. You can just use the same things over and over again, put it in a quart canning jar, and you've got $12.

You've gotta do what you like to do. If you do things you don't like to do, what sense does it make?

My life is the land, the dogs, the car, the motorcycle, the pond, the canoe, going to pick up mail. It's just a rural retreat that I enjoy.