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" There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't. "

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" Golf's ultimate moral instruction directs us to find within ourselves a pivotal center of enjoyment: relax into a rhythm that fits the hills and swales, and play the shot at hand - not the last one, or the next one, but the one at your feet, in the poison ivy, where you put it. "

" New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere. "

" Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback. "

" A lot of the Koran does not speak very eloquently to a Westerner. Much of it is either legalistic or opaquely poetic. "

" In becoming an icon, it is useful to die young. "

" It's so hard to make a good tee shot after a birdie. "

" Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. "

" There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes. "

" If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself. "

" A person believes various things at various times, even on the same day. "

" The firmest house in my fiction, probably, is the little thick-walled sandstone farmhouse of 'The Centaur' and 'Of the Farm'; I had lived in that house, and can visualize every floorboard and bit of worn molding. "

" I've always tried to write about America. It's very worth a writer's effort. "

" Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. "

" What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other. "

" Some golfers, we are told, enjoy the landscape; but properly, the landscape shrivels and compresses into the grim, surrealistically vivid patch of grass directly under the golfer's eyes as he morosely walks toward where he thinks his ball might be. "

" Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark. "

" Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty. "

" To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit. "

" Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. "

" All love comes from the family. "

" Golf at its measured pace permits an electric excess of mental activity. "

" The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me. "

" Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself. "

" American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism. "

" I'm a dull person. "