They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.

Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

I always advise people never to give advice.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.

The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.

A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily cease to weigh upon us so heavily.

I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them.

I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

Everyone's work is equally important.

Unconscious decisions for action go on constantly inside the head.

It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz.

We came to enjoy; we are being enjoyed. We came to rule; we are being ruled. We came to work; we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.

Revolution is not something outside of us, but inside us, begging for our engagement every single day.

Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.