I hope to have a self-sustaining business about a year from now.

We're still not relaxed. But the income here has helped us greatly.

It was upsetting. My third child was just getting out of high school, and we were looking at college tuition. My wife was devastated. It really hit her hard.

I could have stayed in the field and went to work for another glass company. I just didn't want to leave my hometown.

I think he's done a good job. I hope whoever the new mayor is will be as open and treat people with the same respect Ernie has.

N it's fuckin well beyond violence, it's beyond even sexual; it's a kind ay love, a fuckin bizarre, vain-glorious self-adoration, way past the fuckin ego even. Ah'm findin somethin...ah'm...but it's what bein a hard man is aboot; it's a journey, a fuckin self-destructive quest tae find yir limits, cause they fuckin limits eywis come in the form ay a harder man. A big, stong, stiff-hard man whae can dae it for ye, whae can teach ye, show ye whaire ye stand, where yir fuckin parameters ur.