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

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.

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.

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

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

When he went to go get groceries, though, he asked Mercer to come. 'There's no one I'd rather get stuck in a snowdrift and freeze to death with, ' William said.

If you sing a song of peace with enough gestures and grimaces, it becomes a war song.

Without explaining why, and, most of all, without naming other authors or books, I can only say my novels are influenced by love and death.

Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.

I'm secure in who I am. I don't need the validation of those that would say, you have to be a certain thing in order to be accepted. I'm comfortable going against the grain if I need to.

I’m in, Cat. I’d never leave you. Especially when you’ve got death breathing down your neck.” “Very funny,” I retorted, since Bones was inches from my throat

The more knowledge one person has of the other, the greater the intimacy within the relationship.

We don't take a trip. A trip takes us.

The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbors as any others.

A WISE MAN never enjoys himself so much, or a FOOL so little, as when he is alone.