The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.

Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence; fat or thin, scratch or duffer, we have been somerwhere together where non-golfers never go.

Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.

You imagine a reader and try to keep the reader interested. That's storytelling. You also hope to reward the reader with a sense of a completed design, that somebody is in charge, and that while life is pointless, the book isn't pointless. The author knows where he is going. That's form.

Appealingness is inversely proportional to attainability.

In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature.