He refused ever to speak of it because, he told a friend, "You'd never believe me".
He added that he took the knife "because he told me; I felt bad for him".
Her father wouldn't let Karen play basketball, because, he told her, taking a school bus was too perilous.
He did not disclose that until 1994 because, he told The Washington Post: "Nobody asked me.
In 2008, he became known as the Fixer, because, he told me at the time, "I handle what people on the campaign call shit sandwiches.
That's because, he told me, "when people speak in cars they don't speak the same way they do in an office".
He supported Obama in 2008 but switched to Mitt Romney last year, because, he told me, Romney was a superb chief executive.
(The artist declined to participate in that government-sponsored event, because, he told the world, he was a "government" unto himself).
He put in an underground generator because, he told the Wall Street Journal, "If we got into an atomic war, we might need that power".
He came back to try as a senior in '98 because, he told Yamaki at the time, "I still want to play the course the way Hogan did".
A son refused a kidney from his mother because, he told his surgeon, "she's devoured enough of me already".
