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

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.

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

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don't care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn't be driving a car if you're over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that.

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.