Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.

If golf wasn't enjoyable and there wasn't a lot of humor and enjoyment, even though the game is so frustrating, you would wonder why you put yourself through it.

Ray Romano

Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality.

John Updike

But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon with us all through, and none of the longest. Small blame to us if we give our whole hearts to this glowing bride of ours, to the appetities, to honour, to the hungry curiosity of the mind, to the pleasure of the eyes in nature, and the pride of our own nimble bodies.

Robert Louis Stevenson, from 'Ae

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.

George Santayana

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

W. Somerset Maugham

It's just me and my 6-month-old puppy. I am not dating anyone.

Bridget Hall

When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.

Samuel Butler

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

Laurence Sterne

A lack of clarity is food for failure.

Steve Maraboli

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Og Mandino

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Jim Elliot

Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

Basil Bunting