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

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

To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.

Hooray!" said the Chief of the Army. "Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!

The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.