Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.

I've got an uncle myself. Nobody should be held responsible for their uncles. Nature's little throwbacks - that's how I look at it.

It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.

Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.