A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization.

I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root.

Work was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked and feared it and tried to keep out if its way, it knew at once and sought you out and jumped on your lap and climbed all over you to show how much it loved you. Please God, he thought, don't let me die in harness.

Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.

Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free.

The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.

Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.