I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.
To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.
I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.
But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.
I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.
My father was the quintessential husband and dad.
I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shap...
So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.
My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.
I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.
History passes the final judgment.
So much of life, it seems, is determined by pure randomness.
My father was very big on marriage.
I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.
So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professi...