Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.
At 83, George Bernard Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.
Nothing risque, nothing gained.
Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.