The Anderson Tapes

These pictures. A hundred years. My great-grandparents. The Civil War. My parents. The world wars. My brothers. I just think of what all these people went through. To produce me. Me. I'm the result. Ah, Jesus, Duke, what happened to us? How did we get to be what we are? I just can't stand thinking about it - it's so awful. So sad.

It has all gone so fast, Duke. Like a dream. How is it the days crawl by and yet the years fly?

I think criminals - most criminals - do what they do so that they may cause pain to someone. Also, so that they may be caught and punished. To cause pain and to feel pain. That is why they lie, cheat, steal, and kill.

The only crime in this world is to be poor. That is the only crime. If you are not poor, you can do anything.

I have stopped wanting. It is very important to know when to stop wanting.

- You are some woman. - It is my occupation, Schatzie. It is not my sex.

Not all the men and equipment I had requisitioned had arrived by that time. However I felt it better to proceed with what I had rather than await optimum conditions which rarely, if ever, seem to arrive.

First, let me say that it is hardly new to suggest that sexual aberrations are the underlying motivations for sexual behavior. What I would like to suggest at this time is a much closer relationship between sex and crime. In fact, I suggest that crime - in modern society - has become a substitute for sex.

- My brain tells me this is nothing. But my blood wants it. I am sorry. -Why be sorry? You think this is a good thing to be all brain and no blood? It is as bad as being all blood and no brain. The right mixture - that is what is important.

ANDERSON: Who copped your cherry? MRS. EVERLEIGH: My brother Ernie. Does that shock you? ANDERSON: Why should it? I’m from Kentucky.