When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.

Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters.

The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?

Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.

Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.

Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the captain has taken bilingual sneering lessons from the maitre d' at the French joint down the street and the waiter, whose father was born in Palermo, would deny under torture that tomato sauce has ever touched his lips.

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.