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

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.

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

More depended on the student than on the school.

First world babies are eating this planet like termites.

I kind of want to know a little bit about everything.

The name of the game is continuing to learn. Even if you're very well trained and have some natural aptitude, you still need to keep learning.

I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again.

He who slings mud loses ground.

The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.

I'd always had a crush on Teri Garr - and still do. I've always adored her. I mean, who doesn't think about Teri in Young Frankenstein? I mean, come on! It makes you talk in that accent for weeks.

I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony.

Babies are like the smallest, drunkest people you know.