His birds are not carefully posed to illustrate every plumage detail; they are impressions rather than portraits. With a few deft strokes of his pencil, he captures their 'jizz'.

Martin’s kisses were so hurried and moustachy and bristly—you couldn’t feel his lips, even—and unemotional.

But the opening of the first cutting-edge hotel, aimed at the young and newly affluent cyberati who seem to be taking over the planet, is a sign of the steamy new Zeitgeist.

The use of colchicine for gout is FDA approved, whereas the use of colchicine for pericarditis is off label (but is widely respected).