Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.

A good butler should save his employer's life at least once a day.

…Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently? What do you mean, odd?' Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird.

How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?

For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.

Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the local madhouse.

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.