It is always a mistake to underestimate how long it takes for mankind to understand the traumas it has suffered, especially the self-inflicted ones.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

The best of what we are lies in what we hope to be

In the end, you will realize most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.

I don't want to take the escalators. Give me the stairs that have the dips and the two old ladies that are blocking it and they've got an attitude, and they don't want you to go past them.

I get asked if I mind when someone burns my music. I'm just flattered that people want to.

Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unexpected. You have no ears for someone like me.

A sound mind in a manly body.

A choice with no consequences has no value. Making a choice knowing there will be consequences, and being willing to bear them, is what distinguishes the right choices from the wrong ones.

I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest social rank.

I cannot do it without comp[u]ters.