“You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.”

“I'll tell you what. I've been in combat. I've seen it, I've been close to it… and if my unit is in danger, and I've got a captured guy, and the guy knows where the enemy is, and I'm looking him in the eye, the guy better tell me. That's all I'm gonna tell you. The guy better tell me. If it's life or death, he's going first.”

“The meaning of my total existence involves knowing the possibilities of my future as well as my past, where I'm going as well as where I've been.”

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”

“Not counting you I've never had a heartache.
Not counting you I never have been blue.
There's no exceptions to the rule;
I've never been nobody's fool.
I've never lost at love not counting you.”

“My goal in life is to make people think. If I do that, I've been a success.”

“My whole life has been a waste - I've been a failure.”

“I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.”

“I can't quit, once I've started. I've been told I'm pathologically persistent. I can't quit.”

“I've grown up with racism my entire life. I've been bullied, sent to the hospital, beat up, I've been called a Chink and a Gook. Every single racial slur an Asian person can be called, I've been called it.”