The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

Life is more fun if you play games.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.

To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.

But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.

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.

Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone? She'd found it easy, being pretty To hitch a ride into the city.