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.

A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious.

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.

A golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few balls choose the fairway.

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

Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.

To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.