They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why.

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.

New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.

No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.

I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book of rules.