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

From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for humanity. I am still plugging away and not the ghost of one so far, so it begins to look as though, unless I suddenly hit mid-season form in my eighties, humanity will remain a message short.

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

It is fatal to let any dog know that he is funny, for he immediately loses his head and starts hamming it up.

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

They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.

What I'm worrying about is what Tom is going to say when he starts talking." "Uncle Tom?" "I wish there was something else you could call him except 'Uncle Tom,' " Aunt Dahlia said a little testily. "Every time you do it, I expect to see him turn black and start playing the banjo.