Always assume that a lucky hit will not be repeated.

Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.

I would like to be a figment of my own imagination, but belly and bowels will not permit.

Truth usually stammers at first.

Some marriages depend on domestic arguments the way the courts depend on litigation.

What I eat turns into my body. What I read turns into my mind.

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