Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards.

It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain.

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. Mark Twain Women are an alien race set down among us.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

I know how to choke. Given even a splinter-thin opportunity to let my side down and destroy my own score, I will seize it. Not only does ice water not run through my veins, but what runs there has a boiling point lower than body temperature.

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.