A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. |
A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day. |
A reporter meets interesting people. If he endures, he will get to know princes and presidents, popes and paupers, prostitutes and panderers. And always, in the back of his head, there will be a dozen men and women he will never meet. And always, he will feel the poorer for it. |
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. |
At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly. |
At 19, everything looks possible and tomorrow looks friendly. |
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future. |
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future. |
Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade. |
Every kid has a bike, and every kid wants to race. So you just put the two together, |
Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt. |
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun. |
He dropped pejoratives like subliminal seasoning. |
I can look at [my books] with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough. |
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. |