Imagine a weight-loss program at the end of which, instead of better health, good looks, and hot romantic prospects, you die. Somalia had become just this kind of spa.

A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do.

Anything that makes your mother cry is fun

There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.

People have a right to my food, a right to my housing, and a right to my good job for my decent pay.

Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.

If the wind is blowing like stink and everything is working right, a twelve-meter sailboat can go eleven and a half or twelve miles an hour, the same speed at which a bond lawyer runs around the Cental Park Reservoir.