a month or two after i started, navaski came to me and said what about these quotes? i said what quotes are those? and he said did john foster dulles rachel saw you can't fool all the people all the time but you might as well give it your best shot? i said, richard, at these rates you can't expect real quotes. [laughter] >> so there's some things in the book about the wiley and parsimonious navaski. there's a bigraphal section and i thought since we were in a bookstore i would start by reading something from the biographical section from -- i guess you would call it my childhood in kansas city. there's a quote at the beginning of each section, and the one in the biographical section says, i found that a lot of people say they're from kansas city when they aren't. just for the prestige. [laughter] >> this is a piece called chubby. it's common these days for memoirs of childhood to concentrate on some dark secret within the author's ostensibly happy family. it's not just common. it's pretty much mandatory. memoir in america is an atrocity arms race. a memoir reveals inc