How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words.

A thousand enemies outside the house are better than one within. Arab proverb

I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages. I pledge to use books as doors to other minds, old and young, girl and boy, man and animal. I pledge to use books to open windows to a thousand different worlds and to the thousand different faces of my own world. I pledge to use books to make my universe spread much wider than the world I live in every day. I pledge to treat my books like friends, visiting them all from time to time and keeping them close.

I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.

Nobody loves only once.

Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!

Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world - any world. The very best of all.