Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.

I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.

My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.

Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The spirit of the game is its own referee.

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it’s ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.

My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.