Intoxicated? The word did not express it by a mile. He was oiled, boiled, fried, plastered, whiffled, sozzled, and blotto.

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.

He virtually lives on fish

The lunches of fifty-seven years had caused his chest to slip down to the mezzanine floor.

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

He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.