Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.

It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English.

it isn't true, by the way, that nothing is as bad as you think it's going to be. Some things are exactly as bad as you thought they were going to be, and some things are worse.

There was something immensely comforting, I found, about a crumpet - so comforting that I've never forgotten about them and have even learned to make them myself against those times when I have no other source of supply.

I believe that one's basic financial attitudes are - like a tendency toward fat knees - probably formed in utero, or, at the very latest, in cribbo.

Facts must be faced. Vegetables simply don't taste as good as most other things do.