Elsewhere in Italy is the lovely city of Venice, which each year attracts millions of visitors despite the fact that it is basically an enormous open sewer.

You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

There is nothing known as "Perfect". Its only those imperfections which we choose not to see!!

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

I was very inspired by Peter Mullan's film about those kinds of places where you put people who'd been bad.

If cryonics were a scam it would have far better marketing and be far more popular.

I just need to rest, that’s all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.

He who can turn negative situations into something positive, has learned the law of transformation, his mind empowers life.

Weight isn't a factor in nutritional health.

Why does a chicken coop only have two doors? ... Because if it had four doors, it would be a chicken sedan.

My family comes from New Zealand, but I'm a London girl. I was born and raised in London, but I've got the blood of a New Zealander, so I always kind of felt like I didn't belong - in a good way.