You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

All the travelin I ever done is going around the coffeepot looking for the handle.

Wonderful ... I was up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror.

Archie was an expert at dividing the affairs of life into men's business and women's business. An empty cupboard and a full plate were the man's business, a full cupboard and an empty plate the concern of the woman.

I rarely use the internet for research, as I find the process cumbersome and detestable. The information gained is often untrustworthy and couched in execrable prose. It is unpleasant to sit in front of a twitching screen suffering assault by virus, power outage, sluggish searches, system crashes and the lack of direct human discourse.

Develop craftsmanship through years of wide reading.

Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton.