In no other sport must the spectator move.

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

We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. ... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.

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

There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.

The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.

What you haven't done by thirty you're not likely to do. What you have done you'll do lots more.