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.

Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.

These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges

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

Although the Jeffersonian Law ("All men are created equal") is the first article of the American faith, the facts of American life have demonstrated for some time now that it is an irksome faith to live by.

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap.