Quotes About Author

Hoover wrote, "The necessity for mass evacuation is based primarily upon public and political pressure rather than on factual data.

There is another legal sense of the word "copyright" much emphasized by several English justices.

Government has an obligation, they say, to remedy structural racism regardless of its cause decades ago.

The California real estate commissioner refused to take any action, asserting that while regulations prohibited licensed agents from engaging in "unethical practices," the exploitation of racial fear was not within the real estate commission's jurisdiction.

The government was not following preexisting racial patterns; it was imposing segregation where it hadn't previously taken root.

Most segregation does fall into the category of open and explicit government-sponsored segregation

Segregation by intentional government action is not de facto. Rather, it is what courts call de jure: segregation by law and public policy.

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

Truth be told, I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.

I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.

I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he's doing is easy is an occupational hazard.

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.

Camel-nose laughed deep in his muscled throat as if I'd just told him the one about the lumberjack and the water barrel. But he didn't relax his hold on my wrist.

two turnpike commissioners in Pennsylvania. Even the jury found those boys guilty of conspiracy.

The only car in sight was just turning into Chavez Ravine Road and traveling fast. All I could see was the taillight

Manuel Guzmán Boulevard

hilltop home on Durand Drive behind Hollywood

His office was in the Sprocket Building on Figueroa.

Bimbos 365 Club, the theatre-restaurant on Columbus Avenue in San Francisco.

Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.

It is good to divert our sorrow for other things to the root of all, which is sin. Let our grief run most in that channel, that as sin bred grief, so grief may consume sin.

Land a man in a landscape and he'll try to conquer it. Make him handsome and you're a fascist, make him ugly and you're saying nothing new.

You keep singing along to that song I hate. Stop singing.