[The impression is] that Dade County is like Alice in Wonderland where up is down, down is up. As soon read more

[The impression is] that Dade County is like Alice in Wonderland where up is down, down is up. As soon as you drift out of Dade County you find that the Alice in Wonderland world ends at the Dade-Broward line.

Our biggest hazard out here is packrats. We don't want brush piles to build, so we prune our trees every read more

Our biggest hazard out here is packrats. We don't want brush piles to build, so we prune our trees every year near the house.

You can call her an outdoor girl if she has the bloom of youth on her cheeks and the cheeks read more

You can call her an outdoor girl if she has the bloom of youth on her cheeks and the cheeks of youth in her bloomers.

Everybody wants to be like everybody else.

Everybody wants to be like everybody else.

When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surprised to learn they're not it.

When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surprised to learn they're not it.

I'm not going to get involved in the contractual details. I don't want to do that. One of the reasons read more

I'm not going to get involved in the contractual details. I don't want to do that. One of the reasons I came into the job was to get away from that sort of thing.

Now I've stopped wearing huge trousers I can't wear boxer shorts. I wear thongs. When I first wore them I read more

Now I've stopped wearing huge trousers I can't wear boxer shorts. I wear thongs. When I first wore them I felt rude, I kept seeing my bare bum - then I liked it.

In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude read more

In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame -- not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements . Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the ''haves.''

I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do read more

I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand...