That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.

Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.

Women's anes never used to interest me in my teens and early twenties - I think that they are one of the true acquired tastes.

Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.

And it isn't that Joyce has some ludicrous Vagi-fro or massive Koosh-ball explosion of a sex-goatee - in fact here hair isn't thicker really than most.

What sugar-packet manufacturer could have known that people would take to flapping the packet back and forth to centrifuge its contents to the bottom, so that they could handily tear off the top?

After all, I had never typed the word butthole before in my life. It isn't a word that comes up much in business correspondence.

I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes.

Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?