Chumps always make the best husbands. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains.

I wonder what Tommy Morris would have had to say to all this number 6-iron, number 12-iron, number 28-iron stuff. He probably wouldn't have said anything, just made one of those strange Scottish noises at the back of his throat like someone gargling.

A golfer needs a loving wife to whom he can describe the day's play through the long evening.

Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.

the supply of the milk of human kindness was short by several gallons

It is not the being paid money in advance that jars the sensitive artist: it is the having to work.

The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.