"I don't care what people think about me. I just do my own thing."

"I'm a survivor. I've always been a survivor."

"I never had a mother, never had a father, never had a home, I never had a husband. I just had me."

"If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks the fuck to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung."

"The only thing I like about [fishing] is to sit in the boat and eat hot dogs and drink beer and scream when he catches a fish. And you hope that you don't catch any fish, no, I haven't, they wiggle to…"