Most of my schooldays were the worst day of my life.

The author can always delve into his own personality and find aspects of himself with which he can dress his characters.

Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was. Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.

I wrote three books, I had three greenhouses. It seemed to me to be very satisfactory.

It takes forty men with their feet on the ground to keep one man with his head in the air.

Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.

They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that, in the morning, it will be in a body that is going to be hanged.