People will buy anything at jumble sales,' I said. 'At the Evacuated Children Charity Fair a woman bought a tree branch that had fallen on the table.

And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.

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.

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

I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.

Barbie's one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.

I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty.