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.

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.

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

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.

The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.

...this was as if an actual steamroller driven by a crazy grinning idiot had trundled through the door and flattened my entire life into a sad pancake of nothingness.

Sooner or later suffering will find you, It's better you find it first.

'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

But Mr. Hale resolved that he would not be disturbed by any such nonsensical idea; so he lay awake, determining not to think about it.

But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.

Some changes of language are to be regretted, as they lead to false inferences, and society is always a loser by mistaking names for things.

We all stick up for ourselves and I think that's why we stand out, because we really don't care what other people think.

Mother always said you were greedy.

Let me tell you that I love the United States.