I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.

I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun.

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.

A Star is always a star no matter what stage they are on or at

Most people are interested in success, but not COMMITTED to success, which is why 85%+ of people seldom achieve their desired level of success.

The greed of power drowns our ethics.

The source of life’s energy comes from our creator and maker

In winter the very ground seemed to reach up and grab the elderly, yanking them to earth as though hungry for them.

To me, strange is just another way of saying unusual. And unusual is just another way of saying special

The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

There were tiny stars behind my eyelids, a whole galaxy of tiny, spinning stars.

Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.

The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.