35 Quotes by George Plimpton

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

The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparing for a foul shot, the tennis player at set point over his opponent--all of them savoring a moment before committing themselves to action.

I never understood people who don't have bookshelves

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.

A male star named "T.T. Boy"....is a legend in the business [actor in commercial porn films]. T.T. Boy does not look at all glamorous - he's a small, tough-guy, assistant mobster type; sometimes he chews gum during his lovemaking scenes. He pounds his partners...Once memorably described as 'nothing more than a life-support system for his penis,' he got the kind of admiring, solid applause reserved for a large artillery piece going by in a parade.

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

America is very, very cruel to its artists. It doesn't give them a chance for growth. It doesn't give them elbow room for change. There's no room at all for failure."- Carol Marcus Matthau

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

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.