Alistair CookeThinkers

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

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

Las Vegas is the everyman's cut-rate babylon in the desert.

Las Vegas is Babylon in the desert. It is Everyman's cut-rate Babylon

Musak is like audible wallpaper.

New York City is the biggest collection of villages in the world.

Poetry is a safe gathering place of words, a reserve of truth, a place where words kindle ideas and set ideas sparking off in others, a word sanctuary.

A Professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.