Contraries are cured by contraries.

I feel very bad about getting things wrong.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.

You know when I was depressed I said I didn't want to live? Well, I'll tell you something - I didn't want to die.

There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.

The happiest and most contented people are those who each day perform to make the best of their abilities.