She [Marilyn Monroe] was good at being inarticulately abstracted for the same reason that midgets are good at being short.

My wife and I just started listening to the late Beethoven Quartets together, an activity I recommend for all married couples, but that doesn't really mean that I'm finished reading.

Murray sounds like a blindfolded man riding a unicycle on the rim of the pit of doom, the men actually facing the danger are all so taciturn that you might as well try interviewing the cars themselves.

Bjorn Borg looks like a hunchbacked, jut-bottomed version of Lizabeth Scott, impersonating a bearded Apache princess.

Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.

I won't have to miss smoking any more. Nobody smokes where I'm going: It's like a row of restaurants in California.

In Italy, for the same price as a typical British hamburger meal including sweet, a builder's labourer could eat like a king - rather better in fact, because pasta dishes gain from being kept simple.