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

There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time.

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.

Kitchens were different then, too - not only what came out of them, but their smells and sounds. A hot pie cooling smells different from a frozen pie thawing.

the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself.

forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age.