What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!

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.

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.

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

A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody book that’s ever been written.

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

Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out the pattern of German radio traffic.