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

The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept.

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

I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.

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

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.

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.