You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands.

...as all souls are equal before their Maker, a two inch putt counts the same as a 250 yard drive. There is a comedy in this and a certain unfairness even, which makes golf an even apter mirror of reality.

I really don't want to encourage young writers. Keep them down and out and silent is my motto.

Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.

What we need is progress with an escape hatch.

An American in London...cannot but be impressed and charmed by the city. The momumentality of Washington, the thriving business of New York, the antique intimacy of Boston, plus a certain spacious and open feeling reminiscent of Denver and San Francisco-all these he finds combined for his pleasure.