My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.
“When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”
“Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.”