Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

If you look at the best-seller list, it is mostly thrillers. Very few books attempt to create an image of the life we live. I knew there were writers who wore tweed coats and lived in Connecticut and somehow made a living, and that's what I aimed to do. I've tried to write as well as I can with books that say something to any reader.

Human was the music, natural was the static.

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.