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.

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.

Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.

Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.

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

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

Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.