Tomatoes and squash never fail to reach maturity. You can spray them with acid, beat them with sticks and burn them; they love it.

He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.

A basic ingredient in the manufacture of perfume, the attar-a heavy, pale-yellow oil stored in small metal drums-had been put up as collateral by Bulgaria, in lieu of gold, at the Moscow Narodny Bank, a Communist finance house for East-West trade.

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

I don't know where we're going or how we'll get there, but when we get there we'll be there - and that's something, even if it's nothing.

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

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.