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

It is a rare expert who clearly realizes how inexpert someone else can be.

... 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.

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

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.

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

You may have noticed, as I have, that if ever you find yourself declaring emphatically and unequivocally that you will never do some one particular thing, chances are good that this is precisely what you will one day find yourself doing.