Little books are the things to write at my age, I've decided. Avoid the big ones, go for the little ones.

Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.

All honest labor becomes easy; it only becomes hard when done with unwillingness.

You can never get a woman to sit down and listen to a drum solo.

A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't

This quality becomes important at a time when almost everyone is a poet. And as I said, we live in an age where almost everybody is a poet, but scarcely anyone can write a poem.

Here was my first lesson on the resolutely maintained untidiness and ill-health of the English upper orders. In baggy evening dress and old before their time, they displayed gapped and tangled teeth in loosely open mouths. Gently shedding dandruff, they lurched across the lawn. When they stood at the bar they looked like Lee Trevino Putting.