I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.

I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.

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.

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

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.

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.