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

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

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.

I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.

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

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