that’s what fantasies are for: they allow you to skip the degradation and head straight to the top. - David Sedaris

It doesn't take many people to muck up a roadside. A devoted handful can do the trick. One of the things I find repeatedly is a plastic Diet Coke bottle containing a meticulously folded Mars bar wrapper. I imagine this is someone's after-work snack and that by putting the wrapper inside the empty bottle, the person feels he's done his bit. And though he has turned two pieces of trash into one, until he learns to keep it in his car, I don't think he's entitled to pat himself on the back.

What looks good now is guaranteed to embarrass you twenty years down the line, which is, of course, the whole problem with fashion.

The Korean man nodded, the way you do when you’re a foreigner and understand that someone has finished a sentence.