“There are really only three things to learn in skiing: how to put on your skis, how to slide downhill, and how to walk along the hospital corridor.”

Cricket – a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.

Men who get on well with women are usually those who know how to get on without them.

Happy is the man with a wife to tell him what to do and a secretary to do it.

All men are born equal, but quite a few eventually get over it.

For so many years, I was watching my tee shots slide hard to the right.

she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.

The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.

I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.

The tears loosen their memories so they can slide away. They cry at the life they have lost, and then they cry at everything they’ll forget.

We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we’re slip sliding away.

The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

I will never slide, never fall, never fail.