As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold.

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

Like a chastity belt, the package tour keeps you out of mischief but a bit restive for wondering what you missed.

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

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

The fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that you're still alive and about, if such is the case, and that you're glad other people are, without having to spend an entire evening proving it.

I recently adopted for my own a good motto I saw somewhere, on a barroom mirror or possibly a washroom wall: 'The time you enjoyed wasting wasn't wasted.' I think I'll have that printed some day on a T-shirt or the bedroom ceiling.