By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.

To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.

Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.

In a generation or two, or maybe sooner, young golfers of true sporting instinct will wonder why all this handling of the ball is necessary. It will seem to them that the game is not as good as it might be.

Tape is the archiving champ and has been for decades. Reliable, less expensive than disks and available in large-scale robotic systems that store petabytes.

Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.

People perish. Books are immortal.