This is how a woman may inexplicably find herself in bed with a man she's just met at a party and the next day is at a total loss to understand how or why it happened.

The way we buy electricity today is like going to a store without seeing prices: we pick what we want, and receive an unintelligible bill at the end of the month.

She would have been greatly astonished, had any one said to her: "You do not sleep?

Some looked at him quizzically, perhaps wondering why he had inflicted such suffering on himself.

Recognizing the name of one of our consuls, I replied, somewhat taken aback.

And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure… And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky!

Old Pretty by this time had looked round, puzzled; and seeing two people crouching under her where, by immemorial custom, there should have been only one, lifted her hind leg crossly.

This is illegal ... I can't answer any more of these pointless questions.

“Yeah, I'm a very understanding kinda guy,” he said. “I'll write your ticket as ridiculously fast as you drive.”

The photographer, a bachelor in his late thirties, watched the three girls giggle and was moved by something in the girls’ faces that was beyond their understanding.

I just do it somehow, " Collins said. "Now can you please call the janitor or a locksmith or do something to get me out of here

It beats me how she can have done it.

Dad, I thank you for the suffering, even though that sounds out of place, but you truly have shaped my life, and I'm enjoying it so far.

If you get an unsolicited email from a business wanting to give you an incredible amount of money for a simple task, delete it.

I tried to imagine him up there, Miller, foot stuck in the stairwell in some odd way that prevented him from falling like the rest of us.

I have this weird thing that if I sleep with someone they’re going to take my creativity from me through my vagina.

I’ll write your ticket as ridiculously fast as you drive.

The corners of his moustache twitched. “It was definitely in the ‘ridiculous’ category, ” he said.

These fishwife vehicles, in which one feels one knows not what shadows, set the philosopher to thinking.

What's not funny is that many women are hurt when men don't talk to them at home, and many men are frustrated when they disappoint their partners without knowing why.