Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages

Genes are little items that are found in every living thing except Sen. Alfonse D'Amato.

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

With a novel, you have the reader with you a lot longer, and you owe him a lot more. Obviously you have to have a plot - I say "obviously," although I think a lot of fiction doesn't, and nothing seems to happen. But to me, there should be something that happens, and it should be at least vaguely plausible. And because the readers are going to be with these characters for a long time, you have to get to know them and like them and want to know what happens to them.

The books all say that barracuda rarely eat people, but very few barracuda can read.

Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?

As you know, birds do not have sexual organs because they would interfere with flight.