It's very good to know when you're being lapped on the racetrack, 'cause you've got to put your foot down on the pedal and get going.
I think we're our biggest competition. I think the racetrack's the biggest competition. If we go and race the racetrack and try to go around the racetrack faster than our competition, then that's the goal. I look at it as a competition between us and the racetrack because it's all about lap time.
Horse racing is really much more intimidating than anything having to do with literature. When I had horses at the racetrack, I would wake up in terror in a way that I would never wake up while working on a novel.
I don't really have a ritual. On the car rides over to the racetrack, I just make sure that the right songs are on.
Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.
I've always played cards. I can't remember when there wasn't a gambling game going on somewhere, even if it was a craps game in a wheelbarrow on the backside of the racetrack.
Betting stimulates the caring glands. That is where there is so much caring at the racetrack.
If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.
Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.
