These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges

A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it

To the goggling unbeliever Texans say - as people always say about their mangier dishes -but it's just like chicken, only tenderer." Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken, only tougher

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance

Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air

It's an acting job-acting natural

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster