You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no trail to him

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

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.

You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no trail to him

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.

Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.