The gates of heaven are so easily found when we are little, and they are always standing open to let children wander in.

Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.

If I were younger, I'd know more.

...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.

I suppose it's like the ticking crocodile, isn't it? Time is chasing after all of us.

He looked at her uncomfortably; blinking, you know, like one not sure whether he was awake or asleep.