The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later

To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series of highly unnatural movements, involving about sixty-four muscles, that result in a seemingly natural swing, taking two seconds to begin and end.

It used to be said that you had to know what was happening in America because it gave us a glimpse of our future. Today, the rest of America, and after that Europe, had better heed what happens in California, for it already reveals the type of civilisation that is in store for all of us.

The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there.