Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late '60's.

The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.

I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren.

I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.

Some guy once told me that skydiving is like cutting your throat and seeing if you can get to the doctor before you bleed to death.

Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.

As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and fantasies that radiate outward from the actual event.

If any vestige of the American automobile industry is to survive, it must involve state-of-the-art vehicles that are not equal to but surpass the best imports in every way.

Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor.

The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment.

Racing is bulging at the seams with pure nutball characters, men who can drink more, screw more, fight more, laugh more, joke more, than practically any collection of people in the world.

I'm going to do something bigger and better, bigger and betterand bolder, but first, I'm going to do somethingsmaller and worse.

Don't mistake determination for desperation. Someone who is persistent will stop at nothing to get their way.

I have been going to Italy since 1980, but I always went to do work. I did not live overseas, because I do not like running around with everything I own in a paper bag.

Sorghum is kind of unusual. It can go to very high heats, but it's not as productive in most environments as maize is.

Most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.

I'm a ghetto man who made good. I never forgot where I came from and who put me on top - God and Jack The Rapper.

I think I should be a nightclub singer. I love to sing!

I think it is really important to be in some way provocative -- either intellectually or viscerally -- in the films one makes.

You can laugh of everything, but not with everybody.

The peculiar dignity of men seen eating alone in restaurants on national holidays