Her father had brought her a bookbag. It had pencils and pens in it and even a yo-yo to play with. She was so excited.

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

[Phyllis Hunter is bedridden, and it was her granddaughter who brought a spark of hope to days that could often be filled with gloom.] Only a few days ago, she came into my room and she could see I wasn't feeling very well, ... She said 'Grandma, you can't die until you go to my prom.'Ÿ

My father used to call me the laughing hyena.

My father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It's very chic and elegant and classic.

And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.