Gracious Dying Is A Huge, Macabre And

Picking Other People's Brains Is An Art Worth Cultivating.

Knowing Few Children Of My Age With Whom To Compare Notes, I Envied The Children Of Literature To Whom Interesting Things Were Always Happening.

[on The United States:] A Nation Which Does Not Appreciate That The Simple Elocution Exercise 'merry Mary Married Hairy Harry' Contains Not One But Three Vowel Sounds.

When Is Conduct A Crime, And When Is A Crime Not A Crime? When "somebody Up There" - A Monarch, A Dictator, A Pope, A Legislator - So Decrees.

Growing Up In The English Countryside Seemed An Interminable Process. Freezing Winter Gave Way To Frosty Spring, Which In Turn Merged Into Chilly Summer-but Nothing Ever, Ever Happened.