The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

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

Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me.

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.

The idea is that inside every human being, however unprepossessing, there is a glorious, talented, and overwhelmingly attractive personality. Nonsense. Inside each of us is a mess of unruly, primitive impulses, and these can sometimes, under the strenuous self-discipline and dedication of art, result in notable creativity.

The only men who can turn my blood stream into a condition resembling heavy surf are good-looking heels with characters as intricately unpleasant as the sewers of Paris. With decent and honorable gents, I come all over Platonic. Was ever a woman so perverse and wrongheaded?

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