«Все смеются на одном языке, потому что смех является
универсальным средством объединения людей».
Яков Смирнов, американский комик
"First of all, let me get something straight: This is a JOURNAL, not a diary."
"So long, pop! I’m off to check my tiger trap!"
"Sophie couldn’t sleep. A brilliant moonbeam was slanting through a gap in the curtains. It was shining right on to her pillow."
"Way out at the end of a tiny little town was an old overgrown garden, and in the garden was an old house, and in the house lived Pippi Longstocking."
"The morning after noted child prodigy Colin Singleton graduated from high school and got dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, he took a bath."
"When my long-dreaded thirtieth birthday arrived, I really wasn’t as upset as I imagined I’d be, for I had achieved a much more important milestone: my sartorial centennial. I owned one hundred pairs of shoes."
"One of the few redeeming facets of instructors, I thought, is that occasionally they can be fooled."