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.

Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.

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

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.

Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.

My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working at his desk. I just assumed that I was going to do that, that I was going to be a writer.

Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.