The fact that we still live well cannot ease the feeling that we no longer live nobly.

My father provided; he gathered things to himself and let them fall upon the world; my clothes, my food, my luxurious hopes had fallen to me from him, and for the first time his death seemed, even at its immense stellar remove of impossibility, a grave and dreadful threat.

You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure.

Dream golf is simply golf played on another course. We chip from glass tables onto moving stairways; we swing in a straightjacket, through masses of cobweb, and awaken not with any sense of unjust hazard but only with a regret that the round can never be completed, and that one of our phantasmal companions has kept the scorecard.

Nothing feels worse than other people's good times.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain and instruct a reader.