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

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.

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.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Every memory is precious. It is more precious when it is a memory of a baby’s smile.

Gratitude is pure happiness.Happiness is sure perfection.

Our greatest motivation in life comes from not knowing the future.

A lot of people have told me real New Yorkers are Mets fans

I'm halfway around the world with dozens of bags, feeling like all 4 members of Color Me Badd.

Five thousand people in one society might do something, but five thousand societies of one member each would be a holy trouble.

The storms in my life have become workshops where I can practice my faith in God's sovereignty.

It is true that many Americans find the Commandments in accord with their personal beliefs. But we do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?