You can't find a hermit to teach you herming, because of course that rather spoils the whole thing.

Occasionally he would very nearly swear.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people.

The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?

Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.

If he'd been a hero, he would have taken the opportunity to say, "That's what I call sorted!" Since he wasn't a hero, he threw up.