So what? All writers are lunatics!

I don't like to eat the same dish every day, so I read very different things.

Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.

All books are in safe hands with me. They're my children, my inky children, and I look after them well. I keep the sunlight away from their pages, I dust and protect them from hungry hookworms and grubby human fingers.

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

This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.

I wish I had more time to visit schools.