A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.

Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost no shifting of gears. So, qualifying becomes a test of raw nerve - of how fast a man is willing to take a curve.

I wrote a number of pieces in the year 1966 that were so bad that, although I'm a great collector of my own pieces, I have never collected them.

Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and...

A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.

So many people in this country have a dual loyalty. They have loyalty to America, but they also are determined to have their parade up Fifth Avenue once a year... a Cuban parade or a Puerto Rican parade - many other countries. So they really don't forget.

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.