Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

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.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.

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

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.