Arabic is very twisting, very beautiful. The call to prayer is quite haunting; it almost makes you a believer on the spot.
From John Updike
I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life.
Tiger Woods did not always win majors with ease; after his narrow victory in the 1999 PGA, he slumped and sighed as if he'd been carrying rocks uphill all afternoon.
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.
A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.
Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.
For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.
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