“I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford afte...” — Walter Kirn Quote

“I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.”

“Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.”

“The least sexy city is Los Angeles. And it poses as the most sexy. As you grow up, L.A. is being sold to you as home of the bikini-clad party girls. And then you get there, and it's full of very goal-oriented, yoga-obsessed careerists.”

“It really was... my life was not my own, put it that way. It was fun, I was only 19 at the time but it was crazy, it was really, really crazy and people camped outside my parents' house and it was a nutty time, really crazy and I'm glad I don't have that right now.”

“I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!”

“I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.”