Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

I feel disappointed, but I don't remember just what I expected.

When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.

Boredom strives to detach, but finds itself stuck.

Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day.

Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.

My father liked to moralize, and so do I. But he was in earnest, while I am embarrassed and pretend that I am merely being witty.