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.

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.

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

One of the cool, chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.

There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.