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

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

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.

Stay faithful to consciousness, rest everything is illusion including your mind. Simply be aware without adulterations from intellegience.

The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

Boethius might have been styled happy, if that precarious epithet could be safely applied before the last term of the life of man.

A strong mind is one of the key components that separates the great from the good.

I shall strike the stars with my uplifted head.

I collect cars and bikes. One of my most special rides is a black 1930s Cadillac V16, and then I've got a few West Coast choppers.

I really don't care what I look like as long as it fits with the thing I'm working on.

Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself.

I'll dream no more--by mainly mind Not even in sleep is well resigned. My midnight orisons said o'er, I'll turn to rest and dream no more.