Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.

There is never enough horsepower......just not enough traction.

Porsche and BMW drivers are arrogant.

Yesterday's History. Tomorrow's a Mystery. So live for today.

Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races

If you don't go do what you wanna do, you're just bullshitting yourself.

My proudest moments are beating Ferrari for the World Championship in 1965, and working with Ford to win Le Mans in 1966 and 1967.

I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted.

I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.

Any man that eats Chili and Cornbread can't be all bad

I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes.

Your lifestyle shows who your father is

I perceived that I wouldn't have to go out and search for what I was supposed to do- it would unfold before me.

All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on a platform.

I want a Supreme Court that will stick with Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose, and I want a Supreme Court that will stick with marriage equality.

Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a constant interplay between the imagining and shaping of the story.

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.

I have sworn to die painting.

Because there was just one thing that I had to believe to be able to live - I had to know that he existed. That was all. Everything else I could endure. So long as he existed.

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

There is no justice, and great harm, in diminishing the whole array of future opportunity to save a few people now from a regrettable fate.