Ann Venables

“I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it),...”
― Stephen King

“Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.”
― Bing Crosby

“The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.”
― George Carlin

“Sometimes in the company of others I find a disagreeable spirit of competitiveness kicks in and each person is shamed into spending rather more than he would have wished. This is a historically established syndrome, of course. One Magus going to Bethlehem would probably have sprung for a box of After Eights. Three Magi on the same trip found themselves laden with gold, frankincense and myrrh and bitterly comtemplating their overdrafts.”
― James Hamilton-Paterson, Cooking with Fernet Branca