“Ride close together. Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.”

“There was a mist of moss to ride through and a storm of glass.”

“At forty my faculties may have closed up like flowers at evening, leaving me unable to write my memoirs with a fitting and discreet inaccuracy, or, having written them, unable to carry them to the publisher.”

“Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.”

“I don't remember any blue poodles.”

“I hate women because they always remember where things are.”

“I loathe the expression “What makes him tick.” It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solutions, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm. ”