With boys you always know where you stand. Right in the path of a hurricane. It's all there. The fruit flies hovering over their waste can, the hamster trying to escape to cleaner air, the bedrooms decorated in Early Bus Station Restroom.

I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.

I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained, or the sofa faded.

Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus.

I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.