A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work.

English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with which it has precious little in common.

I'm not funny in person. I mean I'm really not. I'm one of those people who always screw up anecdotes.

18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.

The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.

In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.

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.'