Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on?

Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.

you ever have that feeling when you step down onto a footstep that isn't there?

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.

...with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden of literature.

Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.

She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say 'when.'