"I hated my stepmother. I don 't care who knows it. I love baseball. It doesn't have to mean anything. It's just very beautiful to watch. I'm a Democrat. I always was a Democrat. Brahms is just always too melodramatic for me. You have to be your own person and make your own moral choices, even when they do require real courage. Otherwise,you're like a robot or a lizard."
"Kids, you got to be yourself. You know, you can't act like anybody else just because you think they have all the answers and you don't. Be your own man, speak up, say what's on your mind. Maybe they can't o that in foreign countries, but that's the American way. You can take it from me because I used to be a member of the reptile family, but I'm not anymore."
"The thing was paradoxical because what enabled him to perform this astounding feat was his ability to transform himself. Therefore, his sickness was also at the root of his salvation, and I think it's interesting to view the thing that way. It was his very disorder that made a hero of him. "
'"Wanting only to be liked, he distorted himself beyond measure," wrote Scott Fitzgerald. "One wonders what would have happened if at the outset he had had the courage to speak his mind and not pretend. In the end, it was, after all, not the approbation of many but the love of one woman that changed his life."
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