A cough so robust that I tapped into two new seams of phlegm.

I come Des Moines. Somebody had to.

In the countryside, litter doesn't have a friend. It doesn't have anybody who's saying, 'Wait a minute, this is really starting to get out of control.'

The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.

Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.

England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.

Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe.