Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun.

I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.

The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept.

The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book.

As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them. Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the other way around. What you love destroys you.

Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.

At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.

Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up his mind what to do in life

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he has yet to get over me.

God is the only source of happiness and money

But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear and merge into something else.

I like to hit the gym early in the morning. I feel better throughout the day when I get in a workout first thing in the morning.

You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses.

The gods hate unjust men.

It is ridiculous that I have so many shoes I don't wear. I worry that they're sitting there, being sad.

Don't hate on my fans. Hate on me.

Countless words count less than the silent balance between yin and yang

The guys in New York don’t know the new media. San Francisco takes more risks as a culture.

Why put off kicking somebody's *ss next week when I can do it right now.