Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The spirit of the game is its own referee.

I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.

If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.

What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason

It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like a car, and if you buy a car and grow flowers in it, you're forgetting that the car is designed to take you somewhere else.

But only a fool sails into combat with nature

Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men's souls, and all that is most base? Or has such excitement? Or more vividly exposes our strengths and weaknesses? Boring? You might as well say that life itself is boring!