Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.

Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.

He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own.

In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.

Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that the cup might be dashed from my lips, though experience should have taught me that dashing cups from lips was the way Victorian parents got most of their exercise.