Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.

I've decided to skip 'holistic'. I don't know what it means, and I don't want to know. That may seem extreme, but I followed the same strategy toward 'Gestalt' and the 'Twist', and lived to tell the tale.

Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist.

"Law professors were never like economics professors," a Harvard Law professor told me. "If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him a fool."

Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

The margin of error in astrology is plus or minus one hundred percent.