Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.

What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story.

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.