Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.