"I had evaluated everything that came into my life, even as a young street urchin. I knew it was all about me, every person that came down the sidewalk, everything that happened to me in my life, immediately my thought was, ‘How was this going to affect me? How do I get benefit out of this?’ Just a little con artist, a little manipulator, and totally self-absorbed, maybe by necessity, as all the street urchins are, but that’s the way I had learned to think and exist."