Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.

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

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

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.

Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

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

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

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.

He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

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

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

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.

The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.

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

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.

Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.

Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.

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

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.

Flowers are happy things.

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

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

Boyhood like measles is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

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

Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant better left unstirred.

When I left Chicago, people said, 'Careful with that Texas heat'. I'm like, 'I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat.'

If it is warming, it's because it's happened before, cyclitic, it will happen again, regardless of what you and I do.

It's not every day you do something that's never been done before.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.

It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer.

All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.

More modern poetry is written than read.

I've had a wonderful experience here at Penn State.

I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

Life's the adventure. You don't have to drop your bundle and go bush. It's about being brave within the context that you're in.

Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt except themselves.

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

I have my own studio down in Miami.

I seem to have no problem revealing my crush on the man who murdered Lincoln.

Fantasy is my heart and love. And I just want to play in that garden for the rest of my life.

I'd done plays in middle school, done some for the church in high school, but I had no intention of ever being a professional actor.

People go to college to find who they are as a person and find what they want to do in life, and I kind of already know that so it would be like I'd be taking a step back or something.

Covering the civil rights movement was a mind and eye opener for me. Houston was a segregated society as was Texas as a whole some of it by law a lot of it by fear and tradition. But there was no violence where I lived and if there was hate it was either concealed from me or I just didnt recognize it.