What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.

many people choose, early on, their own truths from the large smorgasbord available. And once they've chosen them, for good reason or no reason, they then proceed rather selectively, wisely gathering whatever will bolster them or at least carry out the color scheme.

I didn't learn for years that you generally find your Self after you quit looking for it.

This wild emaciated look appeals to some women, though not to many men, who are seldom seen pinning up a Vogue illustration in a machine shop.

It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.

When I finally gathered, invented, stole, simplified, borrowed, and found a publisher for a clutch of reasonably foolproof recipes, I learned I had friends I hadn't known about - more proof that a mutual dislike can be quite as sound a basis for friendship as a mutual devotion.

One's travel life is basically as incommunicable as his sex life is.