“My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'”

“Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.”