The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.

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.

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.

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.

I hear your insults and plan to silence them with my victory.

A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.

Know that you are constantly surrounded by unconditional love.

But first on earth as vampire sentThy corpse shall from its tomb be rentThen gastly haunt thy native placeAnd suck the blood of all thy race

There's no text that can replace a loving touch when someone we love is hurting.

Usually the things that happen in my life are an easy trigger for songwriting.

In terms of how I understand the online world, it doesn't just work in the old-fashioned way. You're not going to see billboards and a bunch of commercials. It's all viral.

One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those consequences.

It means protecting people, showing loving concern for each and every person, especially children, the elderly, those in need, who are often the last we think about.

South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.