A typical Irish dinner would be: cream flavored with lobster, cream with bits of veal in it, green peas and cream, cream cheese, cream flavored with strawberries.

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.

Chickens are cheerless birds, I advise you to keep geese which can be taught to follow like dogs, one needs all the companionship one can get in these days.

always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives

Spring came late, but when it came it was hand-in-hand with summer, and almost at once everything was baking and warm, and in the villages the people danced every night on concrete dancing floors under the plane trees.

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

Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.