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

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.

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.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

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

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