If they don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn’t care.

The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor.

"What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "Ask a glass of water."

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

SHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom.

There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.