I just want everybody to have a good time, because I'm goin' out to have a good time. I'm going to go have some fun.

Little Walter was the best harmonica player I ever heard in my life.

If I don't feel it, I can't play it.

Since I left Chicago, I'm a lone wolf. I put on the record player and sit and try to play on the guitar. I've got five guitars here and can't play them, but I'm always whompin' around.

She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

Only the luckless, the petty or the deranged [end] up in court.

My money's riding on this dark horse, baby My heart is sayin' it's the lucky one And its true color's gonna shine through someday If we let this Let this dark horse run

Some people play golf. Some are artists, Some jog. I like to write.

I grew up in a big Irish family, where everyone played the traditional sports, and I remember my grandfather saying to me, 'Why are you playing that communist game? You won't get anywhere with it.'

Our sport becomes not just what we do but an integral symbol-on all levels-of who we are.

I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.

My favorite was going as a boxer when I was 9 years old and wearing my dad's boxing gear.

Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.

You must try never to regret what might have been, child. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot yet see.