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

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.

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

Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.

The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.

the crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock.

being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level.