I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.

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 attribute my whole success in life to a rigid observance of the fundamental rule - Never have yourself tattooed with any woman's name, not even her initials.

I've just discovered the secret of golf. You can't play a really hot game unless you're so miserable that you don't worry over your shots. Take the case of a chip shot, for instance. If you're really wretched, you don't care where the ball is going and so you don't raise your head to see. Grief automatically prevents pressing and over-swinging. Look at the top-notchers. Have you ever seen a happy pro?

He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers--the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons.

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.

I suppose half the time Shakespeare just shoved down anything that came into his head.