The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.

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.

Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.

The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.

As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt.

Before I was born [my father] wanted me to go specifically to Yale, which he thought would help. It was easy for him to think I could be president: he didn't have to worry about being president himself, being ineligible because he wasn't born in the United States.