But unless we determine to take action,' said the old man querulously, as if struggling against something deeply insouciant in his nature, 'then we shall all be destroyed, we shall all die. Surely we care about that?' 'Not enough to want to get killed over it,' said Ford.

There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.

After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this - ‘If human beings don’t keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.

I will understand perfectly if you don’t want to answer, but I will just keep pestering you until you do.

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

There is another theory that states: This has already happened ....

There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that only foreigners do.