The S.S. Sierra was a ten-thousand-ton vessel. Today, lifeboats bigger than the Sierra are found on the Queen Mary and other luxury liners.

An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.

He has no idea what it was like to grow up in the South, where you had to hold your head down.

He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone.

I'm a little hoarse tonight. I've been living in Chicago for the past two months, and you know how it is, yelling for help on the way home every night. Things are so tough in Chicago that at Easter time, for bunnies the little kids use porcupines.

The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.

He always had a chip on his shoulder that he was ready to use to kindle an argument.