“Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.”

“I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.”

“I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.”

“The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.”

“After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.”