Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

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

Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt.