'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'.

You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.

The central point of this final chapter is that - follow my logic carefully here - unless you die, you will continue to get older. (It's insights like this that separate the professional book author from the person with a real job.)

It is an inconvenience, being located in a city where taxes are ludicrously high, where you pay twice your annual income to rent an apartment that could easily be carried on a commercial airline flight.

Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.

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

Avoid the traffic by using one of the park's shuttle buses and view the elk rut with a park ranger.