Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? There had been addition and subtraction in my life, but how much multiplication?

This was long before the term 'single-parent family' came into use; back then it was a 'broken home'.

It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.

I hate the way the English have of not being serious about being serious, I really hate it.

Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.

You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshed instrument designed to catch fish. But you could, with no great injury to logic, reverse the image and define the net as a jocular lexicographer once did: he called it a collection of holes tied together with string.

Global warming is more of a blessing than a curse.