The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.

Gimme: An agreement between two losers who can't putt.

We are born and reborn again and again. We are changing with the waves of time.

A society built upon a foundation of vengeance is a society doomed to destroy itself.

I will be very sad and worried if the imperialist government was calling me a great democratic man.

need is never a good basis for any relationship. it has to be much more than that.

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

Nothing of spiritual significance comes without sacrifice. Your spirituality will always be measured by the size of your sacrifice.

The Broadway schedule is so tough, so relentless there was almost no time to enjoy all the stuff.

I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry.

I must say, I am thrilled with my fan base. For some reason some of them are quite young, so they are quite frightened.

Place a padlock on your throat and hide the key.