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

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.