One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning.

Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments - as long as the paperwork's filled out properly. And in on time.

No," I said finally. "Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?" "1940" I said promptly, which is the problem with Quickness in Answering.

And kissed her for a hundred and sixty-nine years.

If King Harold had had swans on his side, England would still be Saxon.

That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They give us lines to say, they assign us parts: John Wayne, Theda Bara, Shirley Temple, take your pick.

It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.