Did you know that five out of three people have trouble with fractions.

I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he knows about the people who are being put in charge of things scares the hell out of him.

There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.

Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.