I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.
My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.
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.
History is too important to be left to the historians.
People perish. Books are immortal.
You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.