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.

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.

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.

Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.

[Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products.

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

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