The other sad truth about golf spectatorship is that for today's pros it all comes down to the putting, and that the difference between a putt that drops and one that rims the cup, though teleologically enormous, is intellectually negligeable.

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

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

...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.

Hope bases vast premises on foolish accidents, and reads a word where in fact only a scribble exists.

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

To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man.