What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!

A BOOK?! WHAT D'YOU WANNA FLAMING BOOK FOR?...WE'VE GOT A LOVELY TELLY WITH A 12-INCH SCREEN AND NOW YA WANNA BOOK!

Two wrongs don't make a right.

I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.

You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.

Words," he said, "is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.