I'm one year away from 70 and I've had a good run. I really believe I'm okay.

Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.

I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.

Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control.

In my mind and in my heart, I feel okay. I cannot complain that I haven't lived long enough, but I'd like to live longer.

My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.

I was dreaming I was on the Sullivan Show.

Atheism and traditional institutions of the Church are the polar sides of the same marasmus: either of them is badly lacking the truth.

Kick off your shoes. Unburden yourself with song. Tell each other tales. Dance around the table. Leave the cleaning up for the morning. Then go outside and look at the stars.

For a nanosecond, I meet her gaze.Despite the dark, I can see her eye color—it’s the prettiest, strangest shade of blue I’ve ever seen in my life—piercing, dark, and shiny. And then she is gone.

I lived in Detroit until I was six. My older sister was living with us, and she listened to the Ohio Players and Stevie Wonder, so I grew up listening to stuff like that.

I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.

At my first tournament, about four years ago, I got four twos. Now I have a poker problem. I do win every so often, so that's what keeps me going.

Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.

For anyone that's ever had a musical breakthrough in their career, it's always followed by the departure period right after.