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.

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.

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

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

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

I hate to lose and even as an amateur I won every tournament I was in.

If I die Imma do it reppin, I'll never do it second.

Don't be afraid to reach for the stars

I've never had a teenage rebellion, I'm not that type of person. I always work out my problems in a conscientious way.

At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything.

You look at things you enjoy in your life, but much more important is what you can do to make the world a better place.

To care for the natural world is the most effective insurance policy we can have

Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.