The only way of really finding out a man's true character is to play golf with him. In no other walk of life does the cloven hoof so quickly display itself.

Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.

She could not have gazed at him with a more rapturous intensity if she had been a small child and he a saucer of ice cream.

I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

Love is a delicate plant that needs constant tending and nurturing, and this cannot be done by snorting at the adored object like a gas explosion and calling her friends lice.

He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.