oh how television diminishes everything.

Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... !

One thing about tourists is that it is very easy to get away from them. Like ants they follow a trail and a few yards each side of that trail there are none.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

In France that is the one rule, never make trouble.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.