The water is clearer than the air, and the air is the air that angels breathe.

There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.

It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

We had an abundance of mangoes, papaias and bananas here, but the pride of the islands, the most delicious fruit known to men, cherimoya, was not in season. It has a soft pulp, like a pawpaw, and is eaten with a spoon.

On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.