The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

There is nothing Modern about doing dumb things for dumb reasons.

I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.

Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I'll drink instead!

and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.