Life is so very simple when you have no facts to confuse you.

Molded salads are best served in situations where they have little or no competition ... Like television, gelatin is too often a vehicle for limp leftovers that couldn't make it anywhere else.

But let me say this about learning experiences: they're weird. Or put it this way: what you learn from a learning experience is generally something else.

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

... parents embarrass their children probably more than the other way around. I don't know why we should blush so hard for our parents -- we didn't rear them -- and yet we do.

... I've never found anything whatsoever that is as easy to do the right way as the wrong way, and if there is such a thing I would like to know about it.

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