Courage is grace under pressure.

You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.

It's a town you come to for a short time.

I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.

A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.