The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.

It is rather to be chosen than great riches, unless I have omitted something from the quotation.

Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off.

Next to an old-fashioned church social, or possibly a monster bridge party, there is no buzz which can equal the sibilant buzz ofa matinée.

Anything can happen, but it usually doesn't.

The Ultimate Day really begins the night before, when you sit up until one o'clock trying to get things into trunk and bags. This is when you discover the well-known fact that summer air swells articles to twice or three times their original size.