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

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

Being young is not having any money; being young is not minding not having any money.

There's comfort to an awful old dressing-gown a pretty peignoir is powerless to provide, and aging bra elastic, is, I suspect, as near to liberation as most women ever get.

I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.

Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future.

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.