Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name?

It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.

My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.

To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.

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.

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.

Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.