Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink That is the finest of suppers, I think When I'm grown up and can have what I please, I think I shall always insist upon these.

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.

The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.