Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.

If you spend too long trying to avoid death, you will be dead in at least one way.

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.

Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

People perish. Books are immortal.

Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk’s too big, the desk’s too small, there’s too much noise, there’s too much quiet, it’s too hot, too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all, and simply to start.