Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in mood, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement-mixer long after one's own interest in the topic has waned.

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.

For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write about - the movies.

It is imperative when flying coach that you restrain any tendency toward the vividly imaginative. For although it may momentarily appear to be the case, it is not at all likely that the cabin is entirely inhabited by crying babies smoking inexpensive domestic cigars.

I don't care if New York avoided bankruptcy by substituting tourism for the garment business.

A dog who thinks he is a man's best friend is a dog who obviously has never met a tax lawyer.

Now people need special costumes to ride bicycles. I mean, a helmet, what, are you an astronaut??