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.

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

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

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

Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up his mind what to do in life

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

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