"Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency."

"Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art."

"That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds."

"Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five."

"Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light."

"Wisdom principle 46 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 31."

"When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things."

"An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative."