Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.

There is always a chance of failure, of producing something totally unnecessary. But I guess that chance of failure is what makes tightrope walking, race-car driving.

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.

History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.

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

Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.