We old roosters must be cautious. Don't try to outwit your arteries.

There is something about a home aquarium which sets my teeth on edge the moment I see it. Why anyone would want to live with a small container of stagnant water populated by a half-dead guppy is beyond me.

I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds.

I found the pearl of the Orient slightly less exciting than a rainy Sunday evening in Rochester.

"In France," Marcel said with wintry dignity, "accidents occur in the bedroom, not the kitchen."

One stifling summer afternoon last August, in the attic of a tiny stone house in Pennsylvania, I made a most interesting discovery: the shortest, cheapest method of inducing a nervous breakdown ever perfected. In this technique..., the subject is placed in a sharply sloping attic heated to 340 F and given a mothproof closet known as the Jiffy-Cloz to assemble.

The main obligation is to amuse yourself.