The amateur has an infectious, contagious enthusiasm for golf and life.

A hole in one is amazing when you think of the different universes this white mass of molecules has to pass through on its way to the hole.

I developed osteoporosis of the personality. My thought processes became brittle.

One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa.

You must attain a neurological and biological serenity in chaos. You cannot let yourself be sabotaged by adrenaline.

This is where God hangs out.

When I putt, my emotions collide like tectonic plates. It's left my memory circuits full of scars that won't heal.

You need a fantastic memory in this game to remember the great shots and a very short memory to forget the bad ones.

He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.

Why must it be one or the other?' she countered. 'You are both a capable seaman and the son of a Bingtown Trader. Why should not I have both sets of skill?

(One character on another:)"Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his face?

There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.

Having been a chef for some many years, I understand what it's like to work really, really hard to get good at something, only to have someone piss all over it.

Do you want to know what you are? You are a creator. At every moment you are creating. The real question is, what are you creating?

The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite of pioneers.

I'd rather have people who are enthusiastic about what I'm doing than like, "Well, I thought we were going to a Miley Cyrus concert and now it's a strip show!"

I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large.