Without rain, there would be no life.

Journalism has not only its social stimulations but its aesthetic virtues. An invitation into print, from however suspect a source, is an opportunity to make something beautiful, to discover within oneself a treasure that would otherwise have remained buried.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

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.

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.

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.