Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence. 
Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks. 
New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world. 
I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking. 
These humiliations are the essence of the game. 
Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper. 
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it. 
Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance. 
They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why. 
Every sport pretends to be literature. . . 
The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there. 
Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy. 
There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book of rules. 