Let's face it, though, anything that's apt to happen to an appliance like a blender isn't covered by the warranty anyway, so I never send them in. If it breaks, I'll buy a new one. That's the American way.

The best thing about a vacation is planning it.

I don't know anything offhand that mystifies Americans more than the cotton they put in pill bottles. Why do they do it? Are you supposed to put the cotton back in once you've taken a pill out?

Don't keep saying, "I don't know where the time goes." It goes the same place it's always gone and no one has ever known where that is.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Last night we had three small zucchini for dinner that were grown within fifty feet of our back door. I estimate they cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $371.49 each.

The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook.