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.

I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it.

American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism.

Revolution is just one crowd taking power from another.

Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.

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

You do things and do things and nobody really has a clue.