It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.

Rose doesn’t like the flat country, but I always did – flat country seems to give the sky such a chance.

Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work of other writers, for their creator they're complete, not leading anywhere.

I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.

And who says you always have to understand things? You can like them without understanding them -- like 'em better sometimes.

Oh, wise young judge.

And at last father flung the rug off as if it were hampering him and strode over to the table saying, 'cocoa, cocoa!'-- it might have been the most magnificent drink in the world; which, personally, I think it is.