There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

The English invented cricket to make other human endeavors look interesting.

In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.

In the countryside, litter doesn't have a friend. It doesn't have anybody who's saying, 'Wait a minute, this is really starting to get out of control.'

It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before.

Because time moves more slowly in Kid World ... it goes on for decades ... It is adult life that is over in a twinkling.