I get all my ideas in Switzerland near the Forka Pass. There is a little town called Gletch, and two thousand feet up above Gletch there is a smaller hamlet called Über Gletch. I go there on the fourth of August every summer to get my cuckoo clock fixed. While the cuckoo is in the hospital, I wander around and talk to the people in the streets. They are very strange people, and I get my ideas from them.

I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age.

The storm starts, when the drops start dropping. When the drops stop dropping then the storm starts stopping.

It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head.

Ninety percent of the children’s books patronize the child and say there’s a difference between you and me, so you listen to this story. I, for some reason or another, don’t do that. I treat the child as an equal.