If you have ever slept in a covered casserole dish on the highest peak of a mountain range, then you know that it is an uncomfortable place to lay one's head, even if you find a dish towel inside it that can serve as a blanket.

Fetching objects for people who are too lazy to fetch them for themselves is never a pleasant task, particularly when the people are insulting you.

Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.

He looked like the sort of person who would tell you that he did not have an umbrella to lend you when he actually had several and simply wanted to see you get soaked.

One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at the time.

It is one of the peculiar truths of life that people often say things that they know full well are ridiculous.

For Beatrice, when we first met, I was lonely, and you were pretty. Now I am pretty lonely.