Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
From Jim Bishop
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.
A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.
When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?
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.
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
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.
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.
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