The movie that changed my life,' he liked to say, by which he meant that it had changed his wardrobe.

You were my marital bliss,” he said to me this morning. “You can be again!” You know what I answered? “A marital blister, that’s what we’ll have if I stay.

The easy way out is the choice of the myopic.

You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression.

It was your destiny - let us hope it will prove a glorious one.

Talking to them was like being placed into conversational purgatory, with no hope of being released without significant damage to one's self-esteem.