“Books, I found, had the power to make timestand still, retreat or fly into the future.”

“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 ...”

“Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.”

“At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.”

“Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.”

“Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going they merely want to know where everyone else has been. ”

“As far as Im concerned, eighteen holes of golf is the only happiness that money can buy. - Momofuku Ando”

“It was a morning when all nature shouted "Fore!" The breeze, as it blew gently up from the valley, seemed to bring a message of hope and cheer, whispering of chip-shots holed and brassies landing s...”

“I hope you're golfing today.”

“There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.”

“Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”

“A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.”

“I have to return some videotapes”

“In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public off...”

“...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treated working women with complete equality. While in this respect the English, a...”