So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

A Fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.

Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on.

Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.

Of beer, an enthusiast has said that it could never be bad, but that some brands might be better than others.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. Say you're surprised? Say you like it? Say it's just what you wanted? Because it's yours- because we love you.