“Take one trip overland here and you'll know forever that a road in the jungle is a sweet, flat, impossible dream.”

“If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.”

“We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.”

“And fairly enough she thought, for that was the way of the world. A road was to be driven upon. The candy dish was there to be eaten, money in the bank got spent, people claimed whatever they could get their hands on. Wasn't that more or less automatic? For a human being to do any less seemed impossible.”

“What keeps you going isn't just some fine destination but the road you're on and the fact you know how to drive.”

“Every family's its own trip to China.”

“A bird in the hand loses its mystery in no time flat.”