There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in.

A house is not a home until it has a dog.

Each day had a tranquility a timelessness about it so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of the night would peel off and there would be a fresh day waiting for us glossy and colorful as a child's transfer and with the same tinge of unreality.

Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.

We stared at the odd garment and wondered what it was for. 'What is it?' asked Larry at length. 'It's a bathing costume, of course,' said Mother. 'What on earth did you think it was?' 'It looks like a badly skinned whale,' said Larry, peering at it closely.

Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives.

There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in.