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

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

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.

I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.

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

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

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