It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.

There are some people who believe that home is where one hangs one's hat, but these people tend to live in closets and on little pegs.

How did you do that?” Mr. Poe asked. “Nice girls shouldn’t know how to do such things.” “My sister is a nice girl,” Klaus said, “and she knows how to do all sorts of things.

One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at the time.

Never look a gift lion in the mouth.

Fetching objects for people who are too lazy to fetch them for themselves is never a pleasant task, particularly when the people are insulting you.

...the moron who thought love was forever.