Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.

Mrs Thicknesse and I agreed that a business of his own was probably the only solution for him because he was obviously unemployable.

"You ought to be ashamed," a woman in an Easter bonnet told Stein. "Your race gave us our religion..." "From ancient polytheism, the belief in lots of gods," the woman continued a little more eruditely, "the Hebrew nation led us on to the idea that there is only one." "Which is just a step from the truth," said Stein.

The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own.