Remember the first rule of gunfighting... "have a gun."
Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.
I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.
People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.
When I first hit the scene, it was just a lot of go, go, go, go, go. I have a lot of natural energy anyway, but it was over the top.
I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
At first I wanted to be a jockey. I rode horses in Cleveland but I kept falling off and I was afraid of horses. So there wasn't much of a future in it.
The flight was extremely normal... for the first 36 seconds then after that got very interesting.
They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven't seen and going back to places I have seen and love.
While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed.
First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.
My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.