A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.

Gimme: An agreement between two losers who can't putt.

I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.

Love can smack you like a seagull, and pour all over your feet like junk mail.

Trust me, I know what I'm doing.

You dont have a marriage problem, you have a sin problem.

Everything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions.

I'm just trying to grow. That's one thing I told myself is, 'Don't worry about who people say is the best player'.

The superior man is never in anyone's way.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.

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