...golf appeals to the idiot in us, and the child. … Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. - John Updike

...the Japanese interest him professionally. How do they and the Germans do it, when America's going down the tubes?

You can go to the dark side of the moon and back and see nothing more wonderful and strange than the way men and women manage to get together.

I don’t think about politics,” Rabbit says. “That’s one of my Goddam precious American rights, not to think about politics. I just don’t see why we’re supposed to walk down the street with our hands tied behind our back and let ourselves be blackjacked by every thug who says he has a revolution going. And it really burns me up to listen to hotshot crap-car salesmen dripping with Vitalis sitting on their plumped-up asses bitching about a country that’s been stuffing goodies into their mouth ever since they were born.