The programs constantly repeat themselves and one another. No one has yet had the nerve to say, 'As we have nothing sensible to tell you between now and 8:30, please tune in again then.

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?

The court was not previously aware of the prisoner's many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death penalty.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

I approach my life with logic. I do not act on impulse or emotion. I very seldom find that I say, 'And then I can't think what came over me, but I did this or that or the other.' I nearly always know how I will act and I nearly always act in that way. I don't catch myself out in embarrassing situations because I've acted without forethought. I calculate what I will do.

You can behave as badly as you like in America. Nobody notices.

All this cut-price transcendentalism does not prevent California from being a startlingly physical state. This becomes most obvious where Los Angeles saunters down to the sea. The region is called Venice.