Nothing goes sour more easily than the life of pleasure.
I want to appear ordinary, but I have it understood that I am not.
The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting.
A successful restaurant makes everything in it, including the patrons, seem a little better than they are.
Realism: the wealth of detail guarantees the truth of the tale.
Thank God for the passing of the discomforts and vile cuisine of the age of chivalry!