George Plimpton Quotes

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

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

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

I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.

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

My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.

He was interviewed in the early '60s by a young novelist, Pati Hill.

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

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

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.

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

The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book.