Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.

Health foods make promises that only the Second Coming could fulfill.

I put second things first, and then worry about first things.

Unlike life, when books become meaningless, they are making a point.

The privacy of reading frees us to entertain the alien.

Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved

Birth dates and bathroom scales tell more truth than I want to know.