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

Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.

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.

The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

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.

You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.