It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.

Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.

I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.

The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.