I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.

When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time.

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice-compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food.

A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.

Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naive - or worse.

Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means ... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.