Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship.

To say that New York came up to its advance billing would be the baldest of understatements. Being there was like being in heaven without going to all the bother and expense of dying.

You're one of those guys who can make a party just by leaving it. It's a great gift.

I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything. I just want to write.

If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.

Golf is the Great Mystery.

I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me.