"I am talking about ultimate deceit. I am talking about unparalleled treachery. Bottomless lies. Depths that are seen that are previously unimaginable. Darkness and shattering despair that could break bones. Paranoia and horror that could stop the heart cold. All inflicted on one's self by one's self. The soul turns schizophrenic and goes hopelessly insane."
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"And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever."
"Always knowing you're going to die And until then knowing you've got to live."
"You don't make me feel like you used to. That's why I'm leaving That's why people leave each other They come to their senses and get selfish again."
"We came to the end, we found nothing. Nothing!!! And we cursed because we were hoping for so much less."
"I am basically working 7 days a week. When I am not eating, sleeping, or working out, I am working on one of projects which I am just damned determined to finish."
"If the truth is told how I want to be remembered... as someone who cared. Someone who worked really hard and someone who didn't sit around."
"I remain hopeful that science, innovation and kindness will come to the fore as things become more and more tense in parts of the world. I think what you are seeing in the world right now is kind of a leveling or an attempt to level the playing field."
"I'm just shallow and self-interested, and don't get out much because I'm afraid of real commitments."
"All I can do is just do stuff while I am alive and hopefully that track record will speak for itself."
"America is a rough room and you don't know what might come your way, so you have to be prepared for almost anything."
"If you watch a stretch of TV for a few hours, there is a good chance you'll hear me on some commercial or in some documentary or on a cartoon as some voice of a character."
"When you start thinking as far as what's a good photo, unfortunately everything starts looking like a good photo."
"I don't really think about the audience much. I think of myself. Let me dig myself out of that one."
"I think in rural settings, people have a different appreciation for animals than might the city dweller. In parts of India where poisonous snake bite is common, people have a much different value system. I live in a city. I'm not thinking about wolves, lions, etc."
"I continually remind myself to live by a code. It's very important to me. I've got a bad temper."
"Travelling as extensively as I do... the take away for me has made me very humble and very sympathetic to other people's plight in the world and very desirous of being proactive in being part of a solution somehow and not part of a problem. It's made me very patient and very grateful for where I live."
"I do think that Americans are poorly served by their media, at times extremely poorly served by their elected officials who are non responsive to majority feelings and cut off to a certain degree from the affairs of the world."
"I am a white guy in America with an education, albeit high school, but a pretty good one. Another guy from a different demographic or different ethnicity in America can look at me and say, "You take a lot for granted." Well... okay. I just live in a white male American reality, where I hear you but I don't know if I necessarily read you."
"There's no retirement, there's just a few years of non-work by the fire with someone bringing you some tea and relative peace and playing with the grandchildren."