Rick Bass is one of the best writers of his generation.

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.

She said one thing and I said another and the next thing I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life in the middle of that conversation.

Despite the rigid classicism of the famous Paris Opera school and company, the French have done more than their share to unmoor la Danse from its traditions and standards.

If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.

For me cinema is not primarily entertainment. I don't watch fun blockbusters myself.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

If you increase living standards, you make labor more productive. This is why Asia today is becoming more productive than the United States.

You have to be ruthless with yourself, in terms of being honest about what is working and what is not.

Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.

There should be at least ten times the number of rifles in the country as there are now.