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

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

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

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

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

By the way, did you fellows know that a hummingbird weighs as much as a quarter? Do you think a hummingbird also weighs the same as two dimes and a nickel? But then she asked a question of her own: How do they weigh a hummingbird?

Fairs are good places to eat, particularly for stand-up eaters--which is one of the kinds of eaters I am, although when I eat standing up away from home I sometimes miss the familiar cool breeze coming from the open refrigerator.