Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

I had to have this purse. It was shaped like a big saddle with stirrups and everything.

I had to have this purse. It was shaped like a big saddle with stirrups and everything.

It was a good Milan. We played well after being only partially convincing in previous games. We wasted a lot read more

It was a good Milan. We played well after being only partially convincing in previous games. We wasted a lot of chances and one has to say that Pagliuca was really good today.

I have to be realistic. Everest has about a 33 percent success ratio. That's a one in three shot. I'm read more

I have to be realistic. Everest has about a 33 percent success ratio. That's a one in three shot. I'm a little older than most. This is my first trip. Most people wind up making a couple of trips before they summit. I don't know what my chances will be.

If anything, things have gotten worse.

If anything, things have gotten worse.

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.

Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal read more

Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.

I told her we just needed a ball into the outfield.

I told her we just needed a ball into the outfield.

It's the same mental illness, and it's based on paranoid ideations. He believes people are out to kill him.

It's the same mental illness, and it's based on paranoid ideations. He believes people are out to kill him.