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

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.

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.

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’m still afraid to sleep—too many ghosts peering creeping condemning.

One of the cool things I remember is the Swiss people brought their big cowbells.

The problem is, we've had three generations of Iranians who have come to really hate the United States. The Persians used to be a pretty strong - my on problem with people who say don't talk to him.

I'm so not macho. It's crazy. My man cave is so not a man cave.

It's high time you were shown That you really don't know all there is to be known.

Life is short. But desire, desire is long.

Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.

Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong.

She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know

You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.