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

Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

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

Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation's television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from that of the other starlets.

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

[Golfers] are a special kind of moral realist who nips the normal romantic and idealistic yearnings in the bud by proving once or twice a week that life is unconquerable but endurable.