They're Called Virgin Trains Because They Don't

When You Visit A Foreign City You Are In It, But Not Of It, Separated By A Glass Wall. Once, While A Student, I Was Getting Dressed In My Ground-floor Room When A Family Of Italians Crossed The Grass To Watch, As If I Were Laid On For Their Amusement And Instruction.

Reagan Is The Only Man To Take The Presidency As A Part-time Job, A Means Of Filling Up The Otherwise Empty Hours Of Retirement.

Seeing John Major Govern The Country Is Like Watching Edward Scissorhands Try To Make Balloon Animals.

I've Been Intrigued By 'le Monde' Ever Since Work Took Me To Paris Once, And I Noted That On A Day When There Was Some Huge Worldwide Story, The Paper Led Its Front Page On Some Cabinet Changes In Turkey. It Implied A Magnificent Disdain For The Quotidian Folderol Of Mere News.

Even I Would Find A Book About My Life Pretty Dull.