It's frightening to wake up one morning and discover that while you were asleep you went out of style.

I'm so bored. I went to the food locker yesterday to visit my meat.

Written on her tombstone: "I told you I was sick.

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

In the South Pacific, because of their size, mosquitoes are required to file flight plans.

I was a closet pacifier advocate. So were most of my friends. Unknown to our mothers, we owned thirty or forty of those little suckers that were placed strategically around the house so a cry could be silenced in less than thirty seconds. Even though bottles were boiled, rooms disinfected, and germs fought one on one, no one seemed to care where the pacifier had been.

A child develops individuality long before he develops taste.