My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.

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.

Famous people steal my quotes all of the time without knowing

To continue holding on to your grudges is to keep feeding your pain.

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

This is the belief of the Left: You negotiate with evil, and get tough with your allies

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.

To know you have enough is to be rich.

Scale is of prime importance and I think that oversized scale is better than undersized scale.

God can dream a better dream for you than you can!

All my enemies are self-appointed.