Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours.

If you can do no good, at least do no harm.

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

And I apologize to all of you who are the same age as my grandchildren. And many of you reading this are the same age as my grandchildren. They, like you, are being royally shafted and lied to by our Baby Boomer corporations and government.

We were into the Speedway. We'd take a train out to the Speedway where farmers had flatbed trucks with bleachers on them. They'd park in the infield and we'd sit on those. Our heroes weren't the drivers, they were the pit crews. That's because we were local, and we knew what was going on.

My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.