"I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?"

"Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature."

"Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better."

"Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion."

"I don't believe that anything's totally invented... If you're completely inventing a story, there wouldn't be an urge to tell it."

"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."

"Decades of research have shown that most happy families communicate effectively. But talking doesn't mean simply 'talking through problems,' as important as that is. Talking also means telling a positive story about yourselves."

"Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something."