“I'm absolutely clean. I've never tried anything. That's not a lie!.”

“I think I'm still clean living, you know? That's something, when I—I don't go home and have orgies or anything like that. I'm still the same person that I've always been. So….”

“I'm not exactly sure what has driven me so hard… I've never questioned it. I've never had a back-up plan. I was never going to do anything else.”

“Like some helpful person (hi, Mom) has tried to "'clean'" it, and suddenly you can't find anything?”

“I never lie unless it is absolutely necessary. Or convenient.”

“Religion was too vague. God was different. He was something real, something I could feel. But there were only certain times when I could feel it. I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God. "I am clean, now. I've never been as clean. I'll never be cleaner."”

“I never shot a deer. I've never shot anything in my life. I never hunted. I'm just not that type of guy. But there's no doubt in my mind that I would have killed to win. That really scares me sometimes. Right now I think about it, and I get little goose bumps. I would have done anything - absolutely anything - to win. In a war, maybe that's what happens. It was our society against their society.”

“And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.”

“I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.”

“I'm not ashamed of anything I've done.
Shame is a useless emotion.”