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.

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.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

He was more than comfortable with the language of imperious persuasion.

There's a place between passivity and violence. I'll meet you there.

The appeal was so often the same: Make me comfortable so I can go on doing whatever I want to do. They wanted sin without consequences.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.

There's something about these steps [in Oval Office] and thinking about everybody who's walked here and all the business that's been done here.

The chief philosophical value of physics is that it gives the mind something distinct to lay hold of, which, if you don't, Nature at once tells you you are wrong.

The world we live in takes a multifaceted approach. To the American taxpayer: We need to be investing in improving people's lives before the terrorists try to take over.

Go in close, and when you think you are too close, go in closer.