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.

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.

Give dry bread to a rich kid and he will throw it into the dustbin, give it to the poor kid and he will remember your name for the rest of his days

God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.

Design work doesn't just satisfy requirements, it elicits them.

It would be something that another person had written down without understanding its significance; just a sentence or two that would be like a flash of light.

I think we have to accept a wide variety of positions on gender. Some want to be gender-free, but others want to be free really to be a gender that is crucial to who they are.

The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.

Sadly, I can't say the same for my Father, who is probably in a different place - Hell.

We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.

Most everyone now personally knows someone who is openly homosexual.

I was always fascinated by diagramming a sentence. Because that is going into a space, going into a world of language.