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

Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.

My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.

Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any.

In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.

I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.

the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.