... I've never found anything whatsoever that is as easy to do the right way as the wrong way, and if there is such a thing I would like to know about it.

There was something immensely comforting, I found, about a crumpet - so comforting that I've never forgotten about them and have even learned to make them myself against those times when I have no other source of supply.

The same fire that hardens the egg will melt the butter; and much depends on the personality type, whether you customarily rise to a challenge or whether you sink. For as long as I can remember, I have been a sinker. One challenge, and I drop like a rock.

I didn't learn for years that you generally find your Self after you quit looking for it.

When you're little, time stretches obligingly, and vacation is forever.

You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet.

One's travel life is basically as incommunicable as his sex life is.