When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

American patriotism is generally something that amuses Europeans, I suppose because children look idiotic saluting the flag and because the constitution contains so many cracks through which the lawyers may creep.

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

And what would happen to my illusion that I am a force for order in the home if I wasn't married to the only man north of the Tiber who is even untidier than I am?

Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.