As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

I used to love to write. As a child I used to write all the time. I loved to write up until the second I got my first professional writing job. It turns out it's not that I hate to write. I hate, simply, to work.

Communists all seem to wear small caps, a look I consider better suited to tubes of toothpaste than to people.

Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size. Hostesses hell-bent on serving such food to occidentals would be well advised to supplement it with something more substantial and to keep in mind that almost everybody likes french fries.

People have been cooking and eating for thousands of years, so if you are the very first to have thought of adding fresh lime juice to scalloped potatoes try to understand that there must be a reason for this.

The only appropriate response to the question, 'Can I be frank?' is, 'Yes, if I can be Barbara.

Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.