They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.

So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

I just wanted to be sure of you.

Halfway down the stairs, is a stair, where I sit. There isn't any, other stair, quite like, it. I'm not at the bottom, I'm not at the top; So this is the stair, where, I always, stop. Halfway up the stairs, isn't up, and isn't down. It isn't in the nursery, it isn't in the town. And all sorts of funny thoughts, run round my head: It isn't really anywhere! It's somewhere else instead!

Drinking your milk and talking at the same time may result in your having to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwords.

But now I am six. And I'm clever as clever. And now I think I'll stay six now forever and ever.