"She has supper with us six nights a week, and she takes us out one night a week," he says.
Mathematics is classless; it doesn't care where you are from "or who you're having supper with". For years, Zafar has been obsessed with the Austrian mathematician Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem: "Within any given system, there are claims which are true but which cannot be proven to be true". The elegant proof hangs over this novel like an intellectual rainbow.
Rich today, you could be ruined tomorrow, so in the meantime you'd better have supper with this or that famous woman".
He liked living in New Hampshire, but he often found fun and relief by coming down to New York to have supper with me and Bill Shawn, this magazine's editor for many years.
He always had a "hello" for the merchants on 13th Avenue, and he was always home, in the house where he grew up, by 5 p.m. to have supper with his ailing wife of 47 years, Saralyn.
So I catch an early train home to the country instead, where I can have supper with my wife and the dogs and listen to crickets singing in the moonlight.
O.K., maybe George Bush -- the former president, that is -- doesn't want to have supper with you, but he's just a grouch who blames interest rates for his loss to Bubba.
Once or twice, I invited Ruth Weidel to come home with me on the school bus some afternoon, to Millersport, to have supper with my family and stay the night.
He recognizes us and says, 'Are you O.K.? Why are you here?' " Mr. Jackson sometimes invites them to have supper with him or watch movies with him at Neverland Ranch, although they declined to discuss these experiences in detail, citing the nondisclosure agreements they sign upon entering the house.
When our English friend spoke of London and how hard it was to live there since it was so large and one had to travel miles and miles to have supper with friends, and then, if they moved, one often had to travel farther and indeed farther to see them, Lynne looked pained at all this talk of traveling and said: "Oh, no.
To identify a cool posho, listen out for phrases such as: "I run a successful scrunchie business," "Cara Dm'd me and said she was coming," "See you outside BOOM Burger, I'll be in full Adidas," and, of course, "I'm just dashing back to Westbourne Grove to shower and have supper with daddy".
