“I like to dance, but not in the air.”

A lotta Christians wear crosses ’round their necks; do you think if Jesus comes back he ever wants to see another cross?

I expect to be lynched in going to Lincoln [New Mexico.] Advise persons never to engage in killing.

If mob law is going to rule, better dismiss, judge, sheriff, etc., and let’s all take chances alike.

Nobody had race savvy like Al Unser in his prime.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself.

I don’t like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.

The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn’t really need. You can quote me on that.

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you’ve fallen into good hands – someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

I love men and I like to get their attention.