It is a rare expert who clearly realizes how inexpert someone else can be.
a celebrity is someone who no longer does the things that made him a celebrity.
The subject of men and women is absolutely fraught with sex, which is as it should be.
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.
Everything takes longer than you think it should, except for some things that don't take as long.
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.