I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.

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

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's like people always say, Well, does sport teach you anything in life? It teaches you certain things, but it doesn't teach you other things. It doesn't teach, as I say, very much about marriage, very much about how to make a living, any of those things.

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

He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he has yet to get over me.

I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation.