To me having a party is something like having a baby. The fact that you got through the last one alive is not somehow sufficiently reassuring now.

To me having a party is something like having a baby. The fact that you got through the last one alive is not somehow sufficiently reassuring now.

People only call you 'my dear' when they are irritated with you.

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales,' they don't necessarily think of chairs.

Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review, it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic. Is there any truth to the rumor that he had no formal education beyond the age of eleven? In any event, is he able to construct a simple English sentence? Do his participles dangle? When moved to lyricism, does he write "I had a fun time"? Was he ever arrested for burglary? I don't know that you will prove anything this way, but it is perfectly harmless and quite soothing.

I was always the last woman on the last down elevator as the store was closing.