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

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

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

Gimme an agreement between two losers who can't putt

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him

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

The morning after a death, we learned an avalanche of goodies about the renowned, some of which persuaded the reader that he should have cultivated the deceased in life

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

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