The first thing I remember about the world — and I pray that it may be the last — is that I was a stranger in it.
People say it is inappropriate for me to get arrested in uniform, but to me it is the validation of all that I signed up to do. I say what I had to go through is what tarnishes the uniform more than anything.
My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing.
I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived [to sign up for courses], architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it. So I signed up for acting instead.
I wanted to sign up and fight with you guys, but they told me I was too old.
Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.
I have been the last to sign this treaty; I will be the last to break it.
… to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.
My first words, as I was being born… I looked up at my mother and said, "that's the last time I'm coming out one of those."
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.