"It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away."

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"I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go."

"There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me."

"Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention."

"I had to admit I'd pretty much failed at the whole low-profile thing."

"Chris is the engineer down at the studio where we do these things. And he's just such an integral part and he has such a marvelous ear. Also it turns out, we didn't know, but he's a pretty good fiddle player."

"Whenever we don't turn the ball over, we're pretty productive. When you're turning the ball over, you're cutting down on offensive opportunities."

"It's pretty much run by everybody. We're very involved in everything that goes on. We always have been."

"Over the years, I have developed a pretty good Rolodex."

"You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well."

"I like to think I can keep a pretty level head."

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"The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it."

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"Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite."

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"Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know!"