There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.

Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!

It was slowly beginning to dawn upon Henry that nothing is any fun if you can get as much of it as you want. Especially money.

I was already beginning to realize that the only way to conduct oneself in a situation where bombs rained down and bullets whizzed past, was to accept the dangers and all the consequences as calmly as possible. Fretting and sweating about it all was not going to help.

Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.