Be advised that there is no parking in Europe.

I really try to think cinematically, because that's how people read. They create a theater in their minds.

The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.

Dinner Special - Turkey $2.35; Chicken or Beef $2.25; Children $2.00

The bad news was that the yard contained a dog. A very, very large dog, wide and hairy, like a cross between a rottweiler and a Goodyear blimp.

I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding.

One night in Tokyo we watched two Japanese businessmen saying good-night to each other after what had clearly been a long night of drinking, a major participant sport in Japan. These men were totally snockered, having reached the stage of inebriation wherein every air molecule that struck caused them to wobble slightly, but they still managed to behave more formally than Americans do at funerals.