Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.

Forget your opponents; always play against par.

Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

There is an old saying: if a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask him what he shot.

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it.

Practice puts brains in your muscles.

Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.

In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

What abandoned course is that?

And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.

What we colloquially call 'feeling bored' is just the mind, acting out of a self-preserving reflex, ejecting information it has despaired of knowing where to place.

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.

I'm of a generation that romanticizes and maybe even over-romanticized things that were painful, that hurt others. I feel that. But I don't know if I have any regrets.

We are going to be working very hard on the inner cities having to do with education, having to do with crime. We're going to try and fix as quickly as possible.

The world is now adayes, God save the Conquerour.

I like to convey the idea that art is important in everyday life.

Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

You don't make pictures for Oscars.