"There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time."

“All four days I didn't think. I just hit. Squeaky (Medlen, his caddy) said 'kill' and I killed it.”

“Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.”

“African cavalry mounted on rhinos or hippos would have made mincemeat of European cavalry mounted on horses. But it couldnt happen.”

“Men want to put their signature at the bottom; women don't want to finish that letter.”

“My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing. I power wash everything: my wife, the mailman with the f-cking mail, power wash his ass, f-ck my mail up, I don't care.”

“When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.”

“He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep. He was haunted by sad and gloomy reflections about the inevitable end- death. These thoughts were familiar to him, many times had he turned them over this way and that, first shuddering at the probability of annihilation, then welcoming it, almost rejoicing in it. Suddenly a peculiarly familiar agitation took possession of him... He mused awhile, sat down at the table, and wrote down the following lines in his sacred copy-book, without a single correction:”

“I had no reason to want to copy anybody else. What I wanted to give audiences for the few minutes that I thought my career would last was something unique.”