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"Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down."

"I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving."
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"America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."

"Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments."
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"Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience."
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"The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I had written for several years, starting at about 15, but that day on the roof I took my vows and acknowledged my calling."

"I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself."

"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."

"I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that."

"I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago."

"The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps."

"Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be."

"There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why."
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