Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

When you are rich, people treat you with respect.

What were you going to do with it?” McCain asked. "I just thought it might come in useful.” "Were you planning to attack me?” "No. But that’s a good idea.

Statues lined the stairs and stood, dotted across the roof. But they had been brutalized by time and the weather. Some were missing arms. Many had no faces. Once they had been saints and angels. Two hundred years standing in London had turned them into cripples.

There are many things in life that cannot be explained.

Inside every fat man, there's a thin man trying to get out.

It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.