A lady getting a missing belt back from the cleaner couldn't have been more surprised and pleased.

Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.

it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.

the American family is failing in its job of turning out stable human beings. ... It is failing because Americans do not dare to cultivate in themselves those characteristics which would make family life creative and rewarding. To do so, would ruin them financially.

I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.

Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.

Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns.