I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I?

I regard each sentence as a little wheel... Now and again I try to put a really big one next to a very small one in such a way that the big one, turning slowly, will make the small one spin so fast that it hums. Very tricky, that.

Whipped cream isn't whipped cream at all if it hasnt been whipped with whips, just like poached eggs isn't poached eggs unless it's been stolen in the dead of the night.

Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

The maid screamed. The Queen gasped. Sophie waved.

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.