“One, two, three / Buckle my shoe.”

“Every boy should have two things: a dog and a mother who lets him have one”

“As the storm came nearer I began to realize that I hadn't made the most of my three years' immunity. In fact, I hadn't done a single thing about cleaning up my life. I was, if anything, an even more logical target for lightning than the last time I was in range. And thunderstorms don't creep up on you at seven o'clock in the morning in a non-thunderstorm country for nothing, you know. I lined up a rather panicky schedule of reforms...But as the storm suddenly petered out and went off in the other direction nothing much has come out of it yet. I may have three years more, and these things can't be rushed.”

“A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.”

“There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't.”

“There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.”

“The free-lance writer is one who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.”