“Down to the 23rd page of double dutch!”

“I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch.”

“I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page”

“Dutch is not so much a language as an ailment of the throat.”

“All around me I hear the pleasant chortle of Dutch. It sounds vaguely familiar, though I can't imagine why. Then it dawns on me. Dutch sounds exactly like English spoken backward! ...I wonder if I recorded someone speaking Dutch and played that backward, it would sound like regular English!”

“As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the Ocean:"Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner concealer revelator. Look at it, rising up and rising down, taking everything with it.""What’s that?" Anna asked."Water," the Dutchman said. "Well, and time.”