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.

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.

That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.

I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and stay there and put words together.

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.

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.

Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.