Perhaps, if we don't always have a conscious conscience, we have a subliminal one, from which the memory of past wrongs is not so easily erased.

Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation.

The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.

The authentic is almost never found by being pursued; but there is no missing it when you are in its presence.

There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein.

The vision of an entire world becoming just like us is at least as discomfiting as the thought that most of it won't.

Why look any further if you've discovered complete satisfaction.

While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex, sophisticated perceptions.

The wonder is what you can make a paradise out of.

The worst losses come at night.

If there was no such thing as 'Competition', would there be such a thing as 'Success

When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.

Be persistent like a mosquito, at the end you will get your bite

The main idea in golf as in life, I suppose is to learn to accept what cannot be altered and to keep on doing one's own reasoned and resolute best whether the prospect be bleak or rosy.

The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.

What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honor among rogues.

Flattery will get you everywhere," Sam says, "Except, apparently, off a roof.

Your idea of a safe stop is to shank me?!

We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven.