Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

My mother didn't raise me to be a critic, but I seem to have become one anyway.

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.

...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.

Revolution is just one crowd taking power from another.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.