You are safe with me." "I am not at all safe, with you. But I have no desire to be elsewhere.

You know, it's a truism that writers for children must still be children themselves, deep down, must still feel childish feelings, and a child's surprise at the world.

Ice burns, and it is hard to the warm-skinned to distinguish one sensation, fire, from the other, frost.

I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me.

Our days weave together the simple pleasures of daily life, which we should never take for granted, and the higher pleasures of Art and Thought which we may now taste as we please, with none to forbid or criticise.

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

Once you get older, people stop listening to what you say. It's very agreeable once you get used to it.