A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious.

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

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

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.

Discouragement leads away from the right path, and accomplishes the devil’s desire for destruction

We all knew the great lesson of history

I want to remember what we were like before we became ourselves.

I myself must mix with action lest I wither by despair.

As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the international community can stand aside and let all of these slaughters continue without doing anything.

You just don't want a vampire pissed off at you.

Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.

Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow.

I am most drawn to writing when I have something else urgent to do.

Technology and capitalism are very much linked. I think that capitalism probably works best in a technologically progressing society.