“I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.”

“You don't begin to live, until you've lost everything... I've lost everything three or four times. A perfect place to start.”

“When guys come over to date my daughter, I'm going to tell them, "I want you to go out and have a very good time with my daughter. I want you to enjoy yourself and have her home on time. If you abuse her in any way, I'm going to kill your mother and father, cut your back open, pull out your spine, and leave you in a wheelchair so you can think about what you did for the rest of your life. Now, go out and have a good time!”

“When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?”

“In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning”

“I'm not afraid of you. I'm not afraid of anything." "Yes, you are, on both counts. You're afraid of everything. In England there are castles with stone walls that go up over a hundred feet, built during a time when it was the strength of your fortress that won battles. Each time I look at you, I marvel at the feat of organic engineering that's allowed you to create such a fortification within a perfect composition of female flesh.”