
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.

Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.

Flowers are happy things.

Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say when.

He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.

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.

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Have fun and listen to hip-hop and still have God in your life, without being overbearing, without being preachy.