Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

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.

He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble.

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

If men's minds were like dominoes, surely his would be the double blank.

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.