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.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.

What we need is progress with an escape hatch.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

Atrocity is truly emperor; All things that thrive are slaves of cruel Creation.

There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.