Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.

Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose.

Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.

More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.

Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.